Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed differently across cultures and times. Jane Lydon examines how emotions were used to justify, advance or contest imperialism by creating relationships between British subjects across the globe, but also by excluding specific groups.
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed differently across cultures and times. Jane Lydon examines how emotions were used to justify, advance or contest imperialism by creating relationships between British subjects across the globe, but also by excluding specific groups.
Jane Lydon is Professor of History and Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia's colonial past and its legacies in the present. She worked as an archaeologist before becoming a historian, and retains an interest in diverse forms of evidence for the past, especially photographic archives.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: emotions and empire 1. Children of empire: British nationalism and colonial utopias 2. Colonial 'blind spots': images of frontier conflict 3. Australian Uncle Tom's Cabins 4. The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak House 5. Christian heroes on the new frontier 6. Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances 7. The Republican debate and popular royalism: 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen' Bibliography Index.
List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction: emotions and empire 1. Children of empire: British nationalism and colonial utopias 2. Colonial 'blind spots': images of frontier conflict 3. Australian Uncle Tom's Cabins 4. The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak House 5. Christian heroes on the new frontier 6. Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances 7. The Republican debate and popular royalism: 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen' Bibliography Index.
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