Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves

by Peter Mitchell and Peter Mitchell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526161311
• ISBN13: 9781526161314
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"