Writing the Empire by Evamarie Krller

Writing the Empire by Evamarie Krller

Crossing time and oceans, this fascinating history of the McIlwraiths tracks the family's imperial identities across the generations to tell a story of anthropology and empire.

"Writing the Empire is a masterpiece of archival research and reconstruction that illuminates and challenges broad-brush narratives of British imperial and colonial history and demonstrates how biography can, in fact, be more than minutiae without meaning"

-- Ben Wilkie, La Trobe University * Journal of Australian Studies *

"Kroller is to be commended for her exploration of the gendered relationships between family members and other intimate connections are well-explored in this book. She took on a monumental task to synthesize an enormous amount of material and pull out cohesive themes for each section, and yet she still managed to include an intersectional lens to her analysis."

-- Victoria Seta Cosby * Ontario History *

"Writing the Empire is a significant piece of scholarship and historians interested in empire and colonialism will benefit from engaging with it."

-- Robert Hogg * The British Columbia Review *

"Eva-Marie Kroller has drawn upon recent scholarship of imperial connections and networking, as well as extensive archival work, to produce an idiosyncratic and highly original history of the extended McIlwraith family."

-- Barbara J. Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * Canadian Historical Review *

"A splendid accomplishment in literary analysis, family history, and the study of the anatomy of Empire."

-- Andrew Holman, Bridgewater State University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *

"Writing the Empire is a fascinating … history of a family that left its traces [in] Empire politics as well as the international academic and publishing worlds."

* Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen *

"What distinguishes this work from some family histories is its clear-eyed attention to the good and the bad, including the impact of empire on women, Black people, Indigenous people, and other ‘imperial subjects.’"

-- Margery Fee * Canadian Literature *
"Through her intricately woven cross-generational history of a single empire family, the Scottish McIlwraiths, Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948, Eva-Marie Kröller expertly demonstrates the roles and meanings of family and the trans-imperial networks that nineteenth-century families accumulated.” -- Ellen Smith, University of Leicester * Journal of British Studies *
“As a multigenerational and collective biography, this volume does much to broaden our understanding of how family, friendship, and professional networks made empire.”
-- Rob Kristofferson, Wilfred Laurier University * University of Toronto Quarterly *

Eva-Marie KrÖller is a professor emerita in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

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ISBN 13	9781487507572
ISBN 10	1487507577
Titel	Writing the Empire
Autor	Eva-Marie Kröller
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-04-06
Seitenanzahl	536
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