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Title:

A new imperial history : culture, identity, and modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 / edited by Kathleen Wilson.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xv, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

National characteristics, British--History.
Imperialism--History.
Great Britain--History--History--18th century.
Great Britain--History--History--17th century.
Great Britain--History--History--19th century.
Great Britain--Civilization

Other Authors:

Wilson, Kathleen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-373) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson. Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Margaret Hunt -- An "entertainment of oddities": fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s / Gillian Russell -- The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Asians in Britian: negotiations of identity through self-representation / Michael H. Fisher -- "Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance": gentility, knowledge, and the British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century / Philip J. Stern -- Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of "responsible government" in early British India / Sudipta Sen -- "Green and pleasant lands": England and the Holy Land in plebeian millenarian culture, c. 1790-1820 / Eitan Bar- Yosef -- Protestant evangelicalism, British imperialism, and Crusonian identity / Hans Turley -- Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson -- The Green Atlantic radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century / Kevin Whelan -- Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero / Nicholas Rogers -- Ethnicity in the British Atlantic world, 1688-1830 / Colin Kidd -- Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775 / Kate Teltscher -- Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India / Durba Ghosh -- Ornament and use: Mai and Cook in London / Harriet Guest -- Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson.

ISBN:

9780521007962 (pbk.)
0521007968 (pbk.)
9780521810272
0521810272

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53059841

LCCN:

2003049545

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)