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  • World Histories from Below
    Antoinette Burton / Tony Ballantyne
    History has traditionally privileged elites and their accomplishments. World Histories from Below provides an antidote, placing ’ordinary’ people and subordinated subjects at the heart of the themes it explores. Arguing that disruption and dissent are overlooked agents of historical change, it takes a global view of topics including political revolution, religious conversion, l...
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    140,96 €

  • Animalia
    Antoinette Burton
    From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical-whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western im...
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    132,03 €

  • Animalia
    Antoinette Burton
    From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical-whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western im...
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    34,09 €

  • Trouble with Empire
    Antoinette Burton
    The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi’s salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understa...
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    52,01 €

  • An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empire
    Antoinette Burton
    An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames’ ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames’ book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria’s reign.This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria’s empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanist...
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    141,54 €

  • An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empire
    Antoinette Burton
    An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empireoffers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames’ ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames’ book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria’s reign.This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria’s empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanista...
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    39,62 €

  • Africa in the Indian Imagination
    Antoinette Burton
    In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality, caste, and political tensions throughout the postcolonial global South. Foc...
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    39,54 €

  • How Empire Shaped Us
    Antoinette Burton / Dane Kennedy
    Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as the history of empires. While historians have approached this subject in very different ways, their shared preoccupation with the British imperial experience-its institutions, ideas and impact on peoples around the world-has endured and given rise to a rich, varied, and influential ...
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    206,63 €

  • Trouble with Empire
    Antoinette Burton
    The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to unde...
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    52,19 €

  • Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
    Antoinette Burton
    Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay’s History of England, Charles Pearson’s National Life a...
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    44,34 €

  • The First Anglo-Afghan Wars
    Antoinette Burton
    Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and prevent Russian expansion into the region’s northwest frontier, which was considered t...
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    46,08 €

  • Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities
    Antoinette Burton
    Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities presents exciting new perspectives on modern colonial regimes to researchers and students in gender studies, history and cultural studies. ...
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    88,14 €

  • Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, vol 1
    Antoinette Burton / Deborah Logan / Kitty Sklar
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture ...
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    169,04 €

  • Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, vol 2
    Antoinette Burton / Deborah Logan / Kitty Sklar
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture ...
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    168,92 €

  • Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, vol 3
    Antoinette Burton / Deborah Logan / Kitty Sklar
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture ...
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    169,15 €

  • Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, vol 4
    Antoinette Burton / Deborah Logan / Kitty Sklar
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture ...
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    169,28 €

  • Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, vol 5
    Antoinette Burton / Deborah Logan / Kitty Sklar
    The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture ...
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    168,41 €

  • Dwelling in the Archive
    Antoinette M. Burton
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    89,17 €

  • Burdens of History
    Antoinette Burton
    In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals...
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    70,62 €