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  • In the Service of Empire

    Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony

    by Fae Dussart ...
    Series series Empire’s Other Histories
    Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Troubling the Island Story

    The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain

    Series series Empire’s Other Histories
    This edited collection engages with the work of the eminent historian Catherine Hall and her influence on the development of recent British Historiography. Over her career Hall has had a pivotal impact on a number of historiographical and disciplinary fields including British History, Colonial, Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender History, Geography, Education, and Museum Studies. In ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

    Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, ... Read more

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    Medico-Moral Politics in England Since 1830

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    Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex. Beginning in the 1830s, Frank Mort relates his social historical narratives to the sexual choices and possibilities facing us now.This long-awaited second edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discussions of eugenics, race hygiene and social imperialism in the late ... Read more

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  • Hanoverian Britain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Mark Knights ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

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  • Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Essays on Gender, Family and Empire

    by John Tosh ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999), and co-edited Manful Assertions: Masculinities in Britain**since 1800 (1991). Here he brings together ... Read more

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  • Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945

    An Introduction

    Edited by June Purvis ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research.It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the impact of war and womens literature. Specialists in their own fields have each written a chapter on a key aspect of womens lives including health, the ... Read more

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  • Purifying Empire

    Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia

    by Deana Heath ...
    Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then ... Read more

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  • White, Male and Middle Class

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    What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness?Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays, Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminism has opened up vital new ... Read more

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  • Worlds Between

    Historical Perspectives on Gender and Class

    This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history. ... Read more

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  • Re-presenting the Past

    Women and History

    Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history. They show the ways in which women have been excluded, silenced and misrepresented in stories of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Space, Place and Gendered Identities

    Feminist History and the Spatial Turn

    Edited by Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis ...
    In the last two decades, historians have increasingly sought to understand how environments, ‘built’ and otherwise, architectural surroundings, landscapes, and conceptual ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ have affected the nature and scope of political power, cultural production and social experience . The essays in this collection expand upon this already rich field of inquiry by combining an analytical ... Read more

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