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An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption

by Antoinette M. Burton
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781474230155
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 184
  • Original Price: USD 115.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 363 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / General, World, and Modern / 19th Century

An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.

This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria's empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanistan and ending with Zam-Zammeh, the large-bore cannon that Kipling's hero sat astride at the opening of his 1901 novel, Kim. It signposts some of the key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the turbulent ground of empire across the long 19th century, providing a serious counterweight to the notion of imperial conquest as child's play.

With each letter accompanied by a crisp yet historically nuanced account of its subject, this unique account is the perfect primer for students taking courses on global, imperial and British history.

Burton, Antoinette: - Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Burton, Antoinette: - Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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