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Author: Roundell PALMER (Earl of Selborne.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
British Subjects
Author: Nigel RapportPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100018059X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism and transnationalism are found reflected in the lives of a wide range of British 'subjects'--from farmers to dancers, children to retired miners, new-agers to entrepreneurs. In disputing traditional claims that anthropology 'at home' and 'of one's own' is misconceived, unnecessary or unperceptive, this book clearly establishes that an anthropology of Britain can set excellent standards of subtle ethnography and complex analysis. Providing a nuanced appreciation of the intricacies of British society, this book shows how the anthropological study of Britain can offer an enlightening paradigm for the study of individual lives.
Subjects, Citizens, and Others
Author: Benno GammerlPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785337106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe—the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative questions as a result: Who was excluded or admitted? What advantages were granted to which groups? And how could diversity be reconciled with demands for national autonomy and democratic participation? In this pioneering study, Benno Gammerl compares Habsburg and British approaches to governing their diverse populations, analyzing imperial formations to reveal the legal and political conditions that fostered heterogeneity.
The Civil War of 1812
Author: Alan TaylorPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary republicanism sweep the British from Canada? Or would the British contain, divide, and ruin the shaky republic? In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous boundaries, the leaders of the republic and of the empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. The border divided Americans—former Loyalists and Patriots—who fought on both sides in the new war, as did native peoples defending their homelands. And dissident Americans flirted with secession while aiding the British as smugglers and spies. During the war, both sides struggled to sustain armies in a northern land of immense forests, vast lakes, and stark seasonal swings in the weather. After fighting each other to a standstill, the Americans and the British concluded that they could safely share the continent along a border that favored the United States at the expense of Canadians and Indians. Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada. Moving beyond national histories to examine the lives of common men and women, The Civil War of 1812 reveals an often brutal (sometimes comic) war and illuminates the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.
Malarial Subjects
Author: Rohan Deb RoyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107172365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book examines how and why British imperial rule shaped scientific knowledge about malaria and its cures in nineteenth-century India. This title is also available as Open Access.
Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750
Author: Catherine IngrassiaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813948089
Category : Authority in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as a persistent metaphor as well as a material reality. The exercise of power on both an institutional and a personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women, perceived themselves to be captive subjects. This "domestic captivity" was inextricably connected to England's systematic enslavement of kidnapped Africans and the wealth accumulation realized from those actions, even as early fictional narratives suppressed or ignored the experience of the enslaved. Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750 explores how captivity informed identity, actions, and human relationships for white British subjects as represented in fictional texts by British authors from the period. This work complicates interpretations of canonical authors such as Aphra Behn, Richard Steele, and Eliza Haywood and asserts the importance of authors such as Penelope Aubin and Edward Kimber. Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides a rich cultural description that situates literary texts from a range of genres within the material world of captivity. Ultimately, the book calls for a reevaluation of how literary texts that code a heretofore undiscussed connection to the slave trade or other types of captivity are understood.
Statement of Claims of the British Subjects interested in Opium, etc. [By R. P.]
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Author: Roundell PALMER (Earl of Selborne.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Statement of Claims of the British Subjects Interested in Opium Surrendered to Captain Elliot at Canton for the Public Service
Author: Roundell Palmer Earl of SelbornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A critical review of the liberties of British subjects, with a comparative view of the proceedings of the H-e of c-s of I-d, against an unfortunate exile of that country, by a gentleman of the Middle-temple [or rather, by C. Lucas].
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Author: Charles LucasA critical review of the liberties of British subjects. With a comparative view of the proceedings of the H-e of C-s of I-d, against an unfortunate exile of that country i.e. Charles Lucas ; who, in contending for the rights and liberties of the publick, lost his own ... By a gentleman of the Middle-Temple
Author: CRITICAL REVIEW.Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
Author: Charles ReedPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This study examines the ritual space of nineteenth-century royal tours of empire and the diverse array of historical actors who participated in them. It suggests that the varied responses to the royal tours of the nineteenth century demonstrate how a multi-centred British imperial culture was forged in the empire and was constantly made and remade, appropriated and contested. In this context, subjects of empire provincialised the British Isles, centring the colonies in their political and cultural constructions of empire, Britishness, citizenship and loyalty.