Bringing the Empire Home

Bringing the Empire Home
Title Bringing the Empire Home PDF eBook
Author Zine Magubane
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 233
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 0226501779

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How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa? Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to answer questions such as these. Before the mid-1800s, black Africans were considered savage to the extent that their plight mirrored England's internal Others—women, the poor, and the Irish. By the 1900s, England's minority groups were being defined in relation to stereotypes of black South Africans. These stereotypes, in turn, were used to justify both new capitalist class and gender hierarchies in England and the subhuman treatment of blacks in South Africa. Bearing this in mind, Zine Magubane considers how marginalized groups in both countries responded to these racialized representations. Revealing the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender, Bringing the Empire Home demonstrates how much black Africans taught the English about what it meant to be white, poor, or female.

At Home with the Empire

At Home with the Empire
Title At Home with the Empire PDF eBook
Author Catherine Hall
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 33
Release 2006-12-21
Genre History
ISBN 1139460099

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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, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.

Bringing the Empire Back Home

Bringing the Empire Back Home
Title Bringing the Empire Back Home PDF eBook
Author Herman Lebovics
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 256
Release 2004-06-23
Genre History
ISBN 9780822332602

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DIVA study of the meaning of culture in contemporary France with an emphasis on anti-globalization and post-colonial regionalism./div

Nabobs

Nabobs
Title Nabobs PDF eBook
Author Tillman W. Nechtman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 281
Release 2010-08-12
Genre History
ISBN 0521763533

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This book considers the controversy caused by 'nabobs', and the debate regarding British identity and British imperialism in the late eighteenth century.

Seeds of Empire

Seeds of Empire
Title Seeds of Empire PDF eBook
Author Andrew J. Torget
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 368
Release 2015-08-06
Genre History
ISBN 1469624257

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By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

Bringing Down the House

Bringing Down the House
Title Bringing Down the House PDF eBook
Author Ben Mezrich
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 273
Release 2002-12-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0743250842

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The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21—the amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas—and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.’s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.’s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In less than two years they take some of the world’s most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies.

Bringing Tuscany Home

Bringing Tuscany Home
Title Bringing Tuscany Home PDF eBook
Author Frances Mayes
Publisher
Pages 226
Release 2005
Genre Home economics
ISBN 9781840914283

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In her inimitable warm and evocative tone, Frances Mayes helps readers develop an eye for authentic Tuscan style, with advice on how to: Choose a Tuscan colour palette for the home, from earthy apricot tones to invigorating shades of antique blue; Cultivate a Tuscan garden, adding fountains, vine-covered pergolas, and terracotta urns among the herbs and flowers.. Make prime finds at their local antique markets - and to truly bring Tuscany home, shipping advice and market days for several Tuscan towns are included. Set an imaginative Tuscan table using majolica and vintage linens; Enjoy the abundant flavours and easy simplicity of the Tuscan kitchen, with details on everything from olive oil and vin santo to pici and gnocchi, plus special, homegrown menus and recipes.