Empire of Sentiment. The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism, Paperback - Joanna Lewis

Empire of Sentiment opens up a new area of the emotional history of imperialism, showing why a history of the emotions is crucial to understanding ...

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This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

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Covering the period from 1986 through 2008, this book addresses the scope and impact of Europeanization on the production of national laws, as a pa...

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