At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

by Catherine Hall

Book Overview

This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home, ' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521854067
• ISBN13: 9780521854061
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"