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Ten books that shaped the British empire, creating an imperial commons, Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors

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Ten books that shaped the British empire, creating an imperial commons, Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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Ten books that shaped the British empire

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dictionariesbibliography

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Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors

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creating an imperial commons

Table Of Contents

Remaking the empire from Newgate : Wakefield's A letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne -- Jane Eyre at home and abroad / Charlotte Macdonald -- Macaulay's History of England : a book that shaped nation and empire / Catherine Hall -- "The Day Will Come" : Charles H. Pearson's National life and character : a forecast / Marilyn Lake -- Victims of "British justice"? A century of wrong as anti-imperial tract, core narrative of the Afrikaner "nation, " and victim-based solidarity-building discourse / André du Toit -- The text in the world, the world through the text : Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for boys / Elleke Boehmer -- Hind Swaraj : translating sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud -- Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh : a history of empire and nation in a minor key / Mrinalini Sinha -- C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins and the making of the modern Atlantic world / Aaron Kamugisha -- Ethnography and cultural innovation in Mau Mau detention camps : Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya aagĩkũyũ / Derek R. Peterson

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