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Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain
Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation t...
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narr...
British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but negle...
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Essays written by Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s trace her thinking about modern British history and engage debates about how to think about Br...
Ten Design Principles
This book offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; it prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to p...
African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work
Draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the glob...
Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India
Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women c...
Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United ...
1870–1945
Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented “out there.” Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpos...
This introduction to the field of gender history offers a set of working definitions of gender as a descriptive category and as a category of historic...
Creating an Imperial Commons
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten acces...
Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the n...
The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on h...
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A Very Short Introduction
"This volume is designed to introduce readers to the scholarly field of gender history: its origins, development, reception, recalibrations, and frict...
Or, A Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
"An alphabet of the darker side of Queen Victoria's reign, covering key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the British empire over the lo...
Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation