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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2014An Anglican British world
by Joseph Hardwick, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015Ideas of monarchical reform
by Andrew Mansfield, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015The souls of white folk
by Brett Shadle, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024The Legacy of John Polidori
The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Knowledge, mediation and empire
James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017The souls of white folk
White settlers in Kenya, 1900s–1920s
by Brett Shadle, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2010Museums and empire
by John M. MacKenzie, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2012Welsh missionaries and British imperialism
by Andrew May, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2016Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911
by Charles Reed, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2012Genteel women
by Dianne Lawrence, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015In the club
by Benjamin Cohen, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97
by Mark Hampton, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2013Exporting empire
by Christopher Prior, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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MedicineMay 2016Beyond the state
by Anna Greenwood, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Geography & the EnvironmentSeptember 2016French colonial Dakar
by Liora Bigon, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2009Borders and conflict in South Asia
by Lucy Chester, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2013Empire of scholars
by Tamson Pietsch, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2009Ending British rule in Africa
by Carol Polsgrove, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
