British culture and the end of empire (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ward, Stuart

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526119629
• Artikelnr.: 60362627

Autorenporträt

Stuart Ward is Lecturer in History at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. He also holds a lectureship at the University of Southern Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements General editor's introduction Introduction 1. The persistence of empire in metropolitan culture
John M. Mackenzie 2. Empire loyalists and 'Commonwealth men': The round table and the end of empire
Alex May 3. Coronation Everest: empire and commonwealth in the 'second Elizabethan age'
Peter H. Hansen 4. Look back at empire: British theatre and imperial decline
Dan Rebellato 5. 'No nation could be broker': The satire boom and the demise of Britain's world role
Stuart Ward 6. The imperial game in crisis: English cricket and decolonisation
Mike Cronin and Richard Holt 7. Imperial heroes for a post
imperial age: Films and the end of empire
Jeffrey Richards 8. Imperial legacies, new frontiers: Children's popular literature and the demise of empire
Cathryn Castle 9. Wandering in the wake of empire: British travel and tourism in the post
imperial world
Hsu
Ming Teo 10. Communities of Britishness: Migration in the last gasp of empire
Kathleen Paul 11. South Asians in post
imperial Britain: Decolonisation and the imperial legacy
Shompa Lahiri 12. India, Inc.?: Nostalgia, memory and the empire of things
Antoinette Burton Notes on contributors