Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
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Cambridge, UK : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/0476
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English
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xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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...
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Cambridge, UK : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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"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. Many emotional ties first experienced within the B...
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Imperial emotions : the politics of empathy across the British empire / Jane Lydon.
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Critical perspectives on empire
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-215) and index.
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G 2020/0476
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74VKawy8Ld5A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKawy8Ld5A
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9781108498364
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909.0971241
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991024286618302626
