{"product_id":"ten-books-that-shaped-the-british-empire-9780822358138","title":"Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTen Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons\u003c\/i\u003e will prove invaluable to scholars working on imperial print cultures, attempting to think globally in Victorian or American studies, or otherwise seeking to unfield British Empire studies.\" -- Kellie D. Holzer * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTen Books That Shaped the British Empire\u003c\/i\u003e . . . sketches an important new nexus for the analysis of print cultures and empires, tracing the ways in which print was embedded in imperial contexts and could inflect those contexts.\" -- Robert J. Mayhew * Journal of Historical Geography *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTen Books that Shaped the British Empire\u003c\/i\u003e works well because the books reviewed in it are diverse in origin, subject, and intention, and because the essays are all of a very high quality; the essays work together to inform and stimulate their readers’ further thinking about the cultural workings of colonization and decolonization. It is a book well worth reading as a whole. Together, it becomes much more than the sum of its many parts.\" -- Lisa Chilton * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        ix   Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons \/ Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr        1   1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield's A Letter from Sydney \/ Tony Ballantyne        29   2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad \/ Charlotte MacDonald        50   3. Macaulay's History of England: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire \/ Catherine Hall        71   4. \"The Day Will Come\": Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast \/ Marilyn Lake        90   5. Victims of \"British Justice\"? A Century of Wrong as Anti-imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner \"Nation,\" and Victim-Based Solidarity-Building Discourse \/ Andre Du Toit        112   6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys \/ Elleke Boehmer        131   7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty \/ Tridip Suhrud        153   8. Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key \/ Mrinalini Sinha        168   9. C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World \/ Aaron Kamugisha        190   10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mihiriga ya Agikuyu \/ Derek R. Peterson        216   Bibliography        239   Contributors        261   Index        265","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406085235031,"sku":"9780822358138","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358138.jpg?v=1730494474","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ten-books-that-shaped-the-british-empire-9780822358138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}