Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire /
Over the last decades of the eighteenth century, hopes and ambitions turned to conceptions of the great southern land, and the British nurtured fond plans for the Antipodean colonies of Australia and New Zealand conceived as children of the British Empire, one day to assume a glorious inheritance. M...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on empire.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Emotions and empire
- Children of empire : British nationalism and colonial utopias
- Colonial 'blind spots' : images of frontier conflict
- Australian Uncle Tom's cabins
- The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak house
- Christian heroes on the new frontier
- Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances
- The republican debate and popular royalism : 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen'.