Imperial Nostalgia

How the British Conquered Themselves

Imperial Nostalgia
Peter Mitchell
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
12 Jul 2021 UK
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9781526146205
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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.
' It can feel, at times, that the culture wars aimed at sowing division in Britain are going to tear us apart. Peter Mitchell' s fantastic new book, however, provides grounds for optimism and teaches us that the answer is to be informed. And there is no better, no more elegant, and no more erudite guide than Mitchell. An essential book for these disconcerting times. ' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland -- .
Peter Mitchell is a writer and historian
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526146205
Published: 12 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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