Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION. THE SPINE OF EMPIRE? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons 1
5. 1 Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefi eld’s A Letter from Sydney 29
6. 2 Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad 50
7. 3 Macaulay’s History of En gland: A Book Th at Shaped Nation and Empire 71
8. 4 “Th e Day Will Come”: Charles H. Pearson’s National Life and Character: A Forecast 90
9. 5 Victims of “British Justice”? A Century of Wrong as Anti- imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner “Nation,” and Victim- Based Solidarity- Building Discourse 112
10. 6 Th e Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden- Powell’s Scouting for Boys 131
11. 7 Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty 153
12. 8 Totaram Sanadhya’s Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key 168
13. 9 C. L. R. James’s Th e Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World 190
14. 10 Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau’s Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ 216
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 239
16. CONTRIBUTORS 261
17. INDEX 265