A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840

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List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: histories, empires, modernities Kathleen Wilson Part I. Empire at Home: Difference, Representation, Experience: 1. Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Margaret Hunt 2. An 'entertainment of oddities': fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s Gillian Russell 3. The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism Felicity A. Nussbaum 4. Asians in Britain: negotiations of identity through self-representation Michael H. Fisher Part II. Promised Lands: Imperial Aspirations and Practice: 5. 'Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance': gentility, knowledge, and the British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century Philip J. Stern 6. Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of 'responsible government' in early British India Sudipta Sen 7. 'Green and pleasant lands': England and the Holy Land in plebeian millenarian culture, c. 1790-1820 Eitan Bar-Yosef 8. Protestant evangelicalism, British imperialism and Crusonian identity Hans Turley Part III. Time, Identity, and Atlantic Interculture: 9. Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery Walter Johnson 10. The Green Atlantic: radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century Kevin Whelan 11. Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero Nicholas Rogers 12. Ethnicity in the British Atlantic world, 1688-1830 Colin Kidd Part IV. Englishness, Gender, and the Arts of Discovery: 13. Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775 Kate Teltscher 14. Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India Durba Ghosh 15. Ornament and use: Mai and Cook in London Harriet Guest Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages Kathleen Wilson Further reading Index.

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