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This book collects eleven original essays in the cultural history of the British Empire since the eighteenth century. It is geographically capacious, taking in the United Kingdom, India, West Africa, Hong Kong, and Australia, as well as sites of informal British influence such as the Ottoman Empire and southern China.The book considers the ways in which British culture circulated within what John Darwin has called the British “world system”. In this, the book builds on existing imperial scholarship while innovating in several ways: it focuses on the movement of ideas and cultural praxis, whereas Darwin has focused mostly on imperial structures —financial, demographic, and military. The book examines the transmission, reception, and adaptation of British culture in the Metropole, the empire and informal colonial spaces, whereas many recent scholars have considered British imperial influence on the Metropole alone. It examines Britain's Atlantic and Asian imperial experiences from the eighteenth to the twentieth century together.Through focusing on political ideology, literary movements, material culture, marriage, and the construction of national identities, the essays demonstrate t

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Author

Crosbie, Barry (editor);Hampton, Mark (editor)

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784996918

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences