Imperial Nostalgia
Regular price
€19.99
A01=Peter Mitchell
Author_Peter Mitchell
Brexit
Britain
British empire
British politics
Category=JB
Category=JBCC
crisis
cultural studies
decolonisation
empire
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
historiography
history wars
imperial nostalgia
imperialism
memorial studies
nostalgia
postcolonial studies
racial imaginary
Product details
- ISBN 9781526146205
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Peter Mitchell is a writer and historian
