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by Claire Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important...
Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History
A (Dis)United Kingdom?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It recognises the separate histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and explores the extent...
The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book...
by Kathrin Langner
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Würzburg, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India was published in 1924 and based on two personal visits of Forster's...
Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Between 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the 'founder of modern conservatism' - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to the identity of...
The Long Shadow of the British Empire
The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social interactions. It examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the British Empire.
by Adrian Wisnicki
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the author defines and explores what he calls the Victorian "conspiracy narrative tradition"--a tradition which embraces...
by Neil Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although Scotland was absorbed into Britain in 1707 with the Treaty of Union, Scottish identity is supposed to have remained alive in the new...
Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 1772–1922
Anti-Colonialism within Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century. Poland loomed large in the Irish nationalist imagination, despite the low level of direct contact between...
The Herds Shot Round the World
Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring...
War and welfare
British prisoner of war families, 1939–45
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
During the Second World War, some 250,000 British servicemen were taken captive by either the Axis powers or the Japanese. As a result of this, their wives and families became completely dependent on the military and civil authorities.
This book examines the experiences of the millions of service...
Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space
After Thatcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike.
Britain and 1940
History, Myth and Popular Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
1940 was the most significant year in European history this century. For Britain it was 'the finest hour', the beginning of the People's War. Britain and 1940 explores what the year meant for the people of Britain then and now.
Covering the pre-history of 1940 in Britain, Malcolm Smith explores...
The Scots in early Stuart Ireland
Union and separation in two kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 1603–60, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Acknowledging the pivotal role of the Hiberno-Scottish world, it identifies some of the limits of England’s Anglicising influence in the northern and...