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A new imperial history : culture, identity, and modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wilson, Kathleen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, British > History.
Great Britain > Civilization.
Imperialism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: histories, empires, modernities / Kathleen Wilson
  • PART I. EMPIRE AT HOME: DIFFERENCE, REPRESENTATION, EXPERIENCE
  • Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Margaret Hunt
  • An "entertainment of oddities": fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s / Gillian Russell
  • The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism / Felicity A. Nussbaum
  • Asians in Britian: negotiations of identity through self-representation / Michael H. Fisher
  • PART II. PROMISED LANDS: IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS AND PRACTICE
  • "Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance": gentility, knowledge, and the British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century / Philip J. Stern
  • Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of "responsible government" in early British India / Sudipta Sen
  • "Green and pleasant lands": England and the Holy Land in plebeian millenarian culture, c. 1790-1820 / Eitan Bar- Yosef
  • Protestant evangelicalism, British imperialism, and Crusonian identity / Hans Turley
  • PART III. TIME, IDENTITY, AND ATLANTIC INTERCULTURE
  • Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson
  • The Green Atlantic radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century / Kevin Whelan
  • Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero / Nicholas Rogers
  • Ethnicity in the British Atlantic world, 1688-1830 / Colin Kidd
  • PART IV. ENGLISHNESS, GENDER, AND THE ARTS OF DISCOVERY
  • Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775 / Kate Teltscher
  • Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India / Durba Ghosh
  • Ornament and use: Mai and Cook in London / Harriet Guest
  • Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson.