Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons

Published by Duke University Press 2014

Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire

Creating an Imperial Commons

Edited by: Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375920

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About this book

Looking 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.

Author / Editor information

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, most recently, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader, A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles, and Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism, all published by Duke University Press.

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Visiting Distinguished Global Professor at New York University. Her prize-winning books include Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading, 'We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told': Oral Historical Storytelling in a South African Chiefdom, and The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Reviews

-- Kellie D. Holzer History: Reviews of New Books

-- Robert J. Mayhew Journal of Historical Geography

-- Lisa Chilton Canadian Journal of History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield’s A Letter from Sydney Tony Ballantyne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad Charlotte Macdonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3. Macaulay’s History of En gland: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire Catherine Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. “The Day Will Come”: Charles H. Pearson’s National Life and Character: A Forecast Marilyn Lake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	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 André Du Toit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden- Powell’s Scouting for Boys Elleke Boehmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty Tridip Suhrud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
8. Totaram Sanadhya’s Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key Mrinalini Sinha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
9. C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World Aaron Kamugisha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau’s Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ Derek R. Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 1 illustration

eBook

Published: February 14, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375920