At home with the empire : metropolitan culture and the imperial world /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 338 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Civilization. Imperialism -- Social aspects. Manners and customs. Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century. Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century. Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11812611

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Other authors / contributors:	Hall, Catherine, editor. Rose, Sonya O., editor.
ISBN:	9780511261206 0511261209 0511258089 9780511258084 0511259387 9780511259388 0511260032 9780511260032 1280749210 9781280749216 9780521670029 0521670020 9780521854061 0521854067 9780511320002 0511320000 9780511802263 0511802269
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-329) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This pioneering volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of empire.
Other form:	Print version: At home with the empire. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521854067 9780521854061

Table of Contents:

Being at home with the empire / Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose
At home with history: Macaulay and the History of England / Catherine Hall
A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present / Laura Tabili
At home with the empire: the example of Ireland / Christine Kinealy
The condition of women, women's writing and the empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Jane Rendall
Sexuality and empire / Philippa Levine
Religion and empire at home / Susan Thorne
Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire / Joanna de Groot
Imagining empire: history, fantasy and literature / Cora Kaplan
New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century / Antoinette Burton
Bringing the empire home: women activists in imperial Britain,1790s-1930s / Clare Midgley
Taking class notes on empire / James Epstein
Citizenship and empire, 1867-1928 / Keith McClelland and Sonya Rose.

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