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Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

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 | #1028731 in Books |  Oxford University Press, USA |  2002-12-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.38 x.55 x8.06l,.70 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Far beyond ornamental|By HH|This delightful and instructive book argues that historians have failed to treat adequately the interrelationship between the United Kingdom and its empire. Although many scholars have dealt with race, Cannadine argues, they have neglected an even more important factor: class. To him, the empire was about reflecting and reinforcing British social he| ||"A lively account....As entertaining in its anecdotes as it is thought-provoking."--Boston Globe||"Cannadine is excellent on the uses of pageantry and on the kitschy extremes it had reached by the nineteen-twenties."--New Yorker||"A thoughtf

With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and "upon which the sun never set" finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we understand the British Empire--its origins, nature, purpose, and effect on the world it ruled--is far from settled. In this incisive work, David Cannadine looks at the British Empire from a new perspective--through the eyes of those who crea...

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