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.
History
XVIII-556 p. : ill., cartes. ; 23 cm
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