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The Expansion of England Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History
272 Pages
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Routledge
268 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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The organized study of history began in Britain when the Empire was at its height. Belief in the destiny of imperial England profoundly shaped the imagination of the first generation of professional historians. But with the Empire ended, do these mental habits still haunt historical explanation? Drawing on postcolonial theory in a lively mix of historical and theoretical chapters, The Expansion... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Bill Schwarz; Chapter 2 Conquerors of Truth, Bill Schwarz; Chapter 3 History Lessons, Couze Venn; Chapter 4 History and Poststructuralism, Bob Chase; Chapter 5 Walter Scott, Bob Chase; Chapter 6 Imperial Man, Catherine Hall; Chapter 7 ‘Under The Hatches’, Gwyneth Tyson Roberts; Chapter 8 Fertile Land, Romantic Spaces, Uncivilized Peoples, Kenneth Parker; Chapter 9 Foreign Devils and Moral Panics, Andrew Blake;
Biography
Bill Schwarz is Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. He has coedited On Ideology (1978), Making Histories (1982), and Crises in the British State, 1880–1930 (1985), and he is on the editorial collectives of History Workshop Journal and Cultural Studies.
