The cultural construction of the British world
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The cultural construction of the British world
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2016
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the case for a 'cultural British world', and examines how it took shape in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand.
These eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary criticism, travel narratives, legal cultures, visions of capitalism, and household possessions. The book argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British world a sense of cohesion and identity.
This book will be essential reading for historians of imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural history. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction: The cultural construction of the British world - Barry Crosbie and Mark Hampton
1. Naked natives and noble savages: the cultural work of nakedness in imperial Britain - Philippa Levine
2. British radicals in Asia and the persistence of empire c.1820-1950 - C.A. Bayly
3. Sugar wars: the culture of free trade versus the culture of antislavery in Britain and the British Caribbean, 1840-50 - Philip Harling
4. At home in the Ottoman Empire: humanitarianism and the Victorian diplomat - Michelle Tusan
5. A semi-exclusionary empire?: the use of British colonial ideals in Trinidad and Bengal - Martin J. Wiener
6. The curious case of the chabutra-wallahs: Britons and Irish imperial culture in nineteenth-century India - Barry Crosbie
7. Sorting out China: British accounts from pre-opium war Canton - John M. Carroll
8. John Stuart Mill's other island: the discourse of unbridled capitalism in post-war Hong Kong - Mark Hampton
9. Scrutiny abroad: literary criticism and the colonial public - Christopher Hilliard
10. Mr. Hickey's pictures: Britons and their collectibles in late eighteenth-century India - Tillman Nechtman
11. Material culture and Sierra Leone's civilising mission in the nineteenth century - Bronwen Everill
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