A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present.
Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man's facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, Imperial Nostalgia asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.
| ISBN: | 9781526146205 |
| Publication date: | 12th July 2021 |
| Author: | Peter Mitchell |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies Colonialism and imperialism |
A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place in the world.
Imperial Nostalgia features in the following genres: Cultural studies, Colonialism and imperialism
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Imperial Nostalgia was written by Peter Mitchell and published by Manchester University Press
Imperial Nostalgia has 248 pages
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