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At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
Catherine Hall
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Description for At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
Paperback. An examination of everyday life practices in Britain's empire, first published in 2006. Editor(s): Hall, Catherine; Rose, Sonya O. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492. Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. 350 pages. Editor(s): Hall, Catherine; Rose, Sonya O. An examination of everyday life practices in Britain's empire, first published in 2006. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBLH; JFC. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 476.
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or ... Read more
This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521670029
SKU
V9780521670029
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About Catherine Hall
Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Her previous publications include, with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 (2000) and Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867 (2002). Sonya Rose is Emerita Professor of History, Sociology ... Read more
Reviews for At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
"...ambitious volume..." -Theodore Koditschek, Journal of Modern History "This volume examines empire's hidden histories sustaining the divide between national and imperial histories." -Julie F. Codell, The Historian