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Civilising subjects metropole and colony in the English imagination, 1830-1867

How did the English get to be English? Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of mid-19th century self-imagining. This study of Englishness explores the cultural agenda of self-construction and home and abroad.
Print Book, English, 2002
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002