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British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940

Author : Daniel Bivona
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521591007
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940 written by Daniel Bivona and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Imperial Fiction, 1870-1940 traces the gradual process by which the colonial bureaucratic subject was constructed in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Daniel Bivona's study offers insightful readings of a number of influential writers who were involved in promoting the ideology of bureaucratic self-sacrifice, the most important of whom are Stanley, Kipling and T. E. Lawrence. He examines how this governing ideology is treated in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and George Orwell. By placing the complexities of individual texts in a much larger historical context, this study makes the original claim that the colonial bureaucrat played an ambiguous but nonetheless central role in both pro-imperial and anti-imperial discourse, his own power relationship with bureaucratic superiors shaping the terms in which the proper relationship between colonizer and colonized was debated.

Empire Writing

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191647241
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Empire Writing written by Elleke Boehmer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1998-07-02 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `The contact with . . .primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) `Flowers look loveliest in their native soil . . .plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known as high empire. A rich and starling diversity of responses to the colonial experience emerges: voices of imperial; adventurers, administrators, memsahibs, propagandists and poets intermingle with West Indian and South African nationalists, Indian mystics, Creole balladeers, women activists and native interpreters. Drawn from India, Africa, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, this wide-ranging selection reveals the vivid contrasts and subtle shifts in responses to colonial experience, and embraces some of empire's key symbols and emblematic moments. Comprehensive notes and full biographies ensure that this is one of the most compelling, readable and academically valuable source books on the period. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Critical Perspectives on Colonialism

Author : Fiona Paisley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136274618
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Colonialism written by Fiona Paisley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire, and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonial societies within the British Empire have made use of the written word and of the power of speech, public performance, and street politics. This book breaks new ground by combining work about marginalized figures from within Britain as well as counterparts in the colonies, ranging from published sources such as indigenous newspapers to ordinary and everyday writings including diaries, letters, petitions, ballads, suicide notes, and more. Each chapter engages with the methodological implications of working with everyday scribblings and asks what these alternate modernities and histories mean for the larger critique of the "imperial archive" that has shaped much of the most interesting writing on empire in the past decade.

The British Empire

Author : Stephen W. Sears
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308090
Total Pages : 759 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The British Empire written by Stephen W. Sears and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution. Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.

Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 1

Author : Deborah Logan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000558851
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 1 by : Deborah Logan

Download or read book Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 1 written by Deborah Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism.

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521826993
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 written by Anna Johnston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.

The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654094
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction written by Ashley Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines the British Empire, reviewing its historiography by answering a series of key questions: What was the British Empire, and what were its main constituent parts? What were the phases of imperial expansion and contraction and the general causes of expansion and contraction? How was the Empire ruled? What were its economic effects? What were the cultural implications of empire, in Britain and its colonies? What was life like for people living under imperial rule? What are the legacies of the British Empire and how should we view its place in world history? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Writing the Empire

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487507577
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Empire written by Eva-Marie Kröller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.

Unfinished Empire

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846146712
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Empire written by John Darwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.

Empire in Question

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349027
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Empire in Question written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about British imperialism in light of contemporary events.

Writing on the British Empire

Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Writing on the British Empire written by Harriet Martineau and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing the Urban Jungle

Author : Joseph McLaughlin
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919720
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Urban Jungle written by Joseph McLaughlin and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the effects of British culture on colonized people, but this study suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between literature and metropolitan culture, it discusses the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home.

Ornamentalism

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195157949
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Ornamentalism written by David Cannadine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.

Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5

Author : Deborah Logan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000558894
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5 by : Deborah Logan

Download or read book Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5 written by Deborah Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism.

The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing

Author : Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653275
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing written by Janet Sorensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, first published in 2000, examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire

Author : P. J. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002547
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire written by P. J. Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost?

Modernism and Empire

Author : Howard J. Booth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053078
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Empire written by Howard J. Booth and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the fascinating relationship between literary Modernism and Empire. The book seeks to begin the task of exploring, in a sustained way, the relations between the artistic movement and colonialism. The essays range over subjects and figures such as Ireland, Africa, Joyce, Pound, Townsend Warner, Lawrence and Forster, Kipling, Woolf, and Jean Rhys.