The need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts.
Western medicine as contested knowledge
This is the first book to consider the relationship between British imperialism and music. With its unique ability to stimulate the emotions and to create mental images, music was used to dramatize, illustrate and reinforce the components of the ideological cluster that constitu…
Imperialism and music: Britain 1876-1953
This is the first book to consider the relationship between British imperialism and music. With its unique ability to stimulate the emotions and to create mental images, music was used to dramatize, illustrate and reinforce the components of the ideological cluster that constitu…
This text examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service from 1854 to 1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. It looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and …
This text examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service from 1854 to 1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. It looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and …
Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. These wars of words used rhetoric to make their case. That rhetoric is the subject of this collection of essays exploring the arguments fought over empir…
"Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities. Many cities still display unmistakable signs of their imperial past, not only in their architecture and monuments, but also in the ways in which their identities are constructed b…
"Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities. Many cities still display unmistakable signs of their imperial past, not only in their architecture and monuments, but also in the ways in which their identities are constructed b…