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Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective
Jodie Matthews (Ed.)
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Description for Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective
Hardback. Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? Editor(s): Matthews, Jodie; Travers, Daniel. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such questions, examining war, empire, tourism, immigration, language, literature, and everyday life on and in islands, and the question of travel to and ... Read more
Islands and archipelagos hold great imaginative power, and they have long been a subject of study for cartographers and geographers, for anthropologists and historians of colonisation. But what does it mean to be an islander? Can one feel both British and Manx, for example? What are British tourists looking for when they go to former island colonies? How do past relationships with Britain affect islands today? This collection takes a variety of perspectives to provide answers to such questions, examining war, empire, tourism, immigration, language, literature, and everyday life on and in islands, and the question of travel to and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781443835169
SKU
V9781443835169
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99-10
About Jodie Matthews (Ed.)
Jodie Matthews is a Research Fellow with the Academy for British and Irish Studies at the University of Huddersfield. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the nineteenth century, in particular the representation of migrant groups.Daniel Travers is a Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Huddersfield. Specialising in how societies memorialise the events of World War Two, Daniel ... Read more
Reviews for Islands and Britishness: A Global Perspective
Islands and Britishness throws an arc light over the often neglected ways that collective entanglements with Britishness preoccupy a miscellany of 'small' islands and deeply condition their unique sense of islandness. It is a real achievement of this collection that it shows how these flows and interconnections coalesce to mediate Britishness in imaginative and strikingly original ways. Its eighteen chapters ... Read more