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

• Other Authors: Hall, Catherine, 1946- (Editor), Rose, Sonya O., 1935- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Edition: 1st pub.
• Subjects: sborníky; miscellanea; 18.-20. století; 18th-20th centuries; imperialismus > sociální aspekty > Velká Británie; kultura a společnost > Velká Británie; imperialism > social aspects > Great Britain; culture and society > Great Britain; Velká Británie > dějiny > 18.-20. století; Great Britain > history > 18th-20th centuries
• ISBN: 9780521670029
• Physical Description: ix, 338 s. ; 24 cm

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