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British culture after empire
Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945
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2023
About this book
British culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in Britain from 1945 up to and beyond the Brexit referendum of 2016, combining approaches from the fields of history, English and cultural studies. Against those who would deny, downplay or attempt to forget Britain’s imperial legacy, the various contributions expose and explore how the British Empire and the consequences of its end continue to shape Britain at the local, national and international level. As an important and urgent intervention in a field of increasing relevance within and beyond the academy, the book offers fresh perspectives on the colonial hangovers in post-colonial Britain from up-and-coming as well as established scholars.
Author / Editor information
Josh Doble is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
Liam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of Durham
Emma Parker is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Keele University
Liam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of Durham
Emma Parker is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Keele University
Reviews
'An important and interesting book filled with important essays.'
Freddy Foks, Contemporary British History
' ...an engaging and rich conversation about how we can and should conceptualize the manifold legacies of Empire in contemporary Britain, including a useful discussion of these issues in relation to the four nations that make up Britain.'
Journal of British Studies
Freddy Foks, Contemporary British History
' ...an engaging and rich conversation about how we can and should conceptualize the manifold legacies of Empire in contemporary Britain, including a useful discussion of these issues in relation to the four nations that make up Britain.'
Journal of British Studies
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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Contributors
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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I Institutions of empire
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1 ‘Bloomsbury bazaar’
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2 Anthropology at the end of empire
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3 ‘He is not a “racist” but should not be appointed director of LSE’
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II Writing identity, conflict and class
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4 Beyond experience
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5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996)
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III Racial others, national memory
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6 White against empire
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7 Racism, redistribution, redress
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8 Exemplar empires
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IV At home in postcolonial Britain
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9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction
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10 Black, beautiful and essentially British
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11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s
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12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks
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Afterword
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Index
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April 16, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781526159755
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Keywords for this book
class politics; cultural memory; decolonisation; imperial nostalgia; institutions; political activism; postcolonial literature; race and ethnic identity; social history; the British Empire
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
