Peter Mitchell

Imperial nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

How the British conquered themselves

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man's facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526146199
• Artikelnr.: 62183267

Autorenporträt

Peter Mitchell is a writer and historian

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1 The idea of empire in political crisis 2 Inventing
the Tradition 3 The History Wars and the Academics 4 The History Wars and
Everyone Else 5 Resurgent racial imaginaries of empire 6 Imperial gender
and the lure of the frontier 7 The upper class imperial drag show 8
Creating the white working class in Brexit Britain's hearts of darkness
Conclusion: Escaping the Empire Bibliography Index