A New Imperial History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This collection of essay charts, for the first time, the emergent terrain of an exciting new field in British studies, the new imperial history. Leading scholars from history, literature, and cultural studies take on the problems of identity, modernity, and difference in eighteenth-century Britain and the empire. They examine, from interdisciplinary perspectives, the reciprocal influences of empire and culture, the movements of peoples, practices, and ideas effected by slavery, diaspora and British domina