Jeffrey A. Auerbach (Professor of History, Professor of History, Ca

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Imperial Boredom

Monotony and the British Empire

Beschreibung

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, Auerbach draws on personal accounts to argue that boredom was central to the experience of Empire.

Autor

Jeffrey Auerbach received his BA from Oberlin College (1987) and his PhD from Yale University (1995). The recipient of numerous fellowships, his first book The Great Exhibition of 1851, was heralded as 'an exemplary piece of cultural history' (David Vincent, American Historical Review). Since then his research and writing has focused on the British Empire; he contributed an essay entitled 'Art and Empire' to the Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V. He was also the founding world history editor for History Compass, en e-journal for history, and has served as a consultant for the History Channel and the BBC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861966
• ISBN-10: 0198861966
• Artikelnr.: 60008782