Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526161314)

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.

Author: Peter Mitchell
ISBN-10: 1526161311
ISBN-13: 9781526161314
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2021
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2022