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Book SynopsisExplores how Livingstone has been represented in diverse ways and put to work in a variety of socio-political contexts. -- .
Trade Review‘[This book] stands out for the sensitivity of analysis, rich foundation of primary sources, deep engagement with academic scholarship in an impressive range of fields, and elegant prose... a major intervention’
Max Jones, The University of Manchester
'What this impressive study of Livingstone’s legacy demonstrates is that our enduring interest in the man derives from the multiple ways his protean persona has been mobilized on behalf of widely divergent agendas since his death. Well-grounded in both empirical and theoretical frames of reference, this book offers a model of how to write a metabiography.'
Dane Kennedy, author of The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia
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Table of Contents1. Bio-diversity: metabiographical method
2. Styling the self: making missionary travels
3. Death: lamenting Livingstone
4. Empire: imperial afterlives
5. Nation: Scotland’s son
6. Fiction: laughing at Livingstone?
7. Revisionism: sins, psyche, sex
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