Imperium of the Soul by Norman Etherington
Some of the most compelling and enduring creative work of the late Victorian and Edwardian Era came from committed imperialists and conservatives. Their continuing popularity owes a great deal to the way their guiding ideas resonated with modernism in the arts and psychology. The analogy they perceived between the imperial business of subjugating savage subjects and the civilised ego's struggle to subdue the unruly savage within generated some of their best artistic endeavours. In a series of thematically linked chapters Imperium of the soul explores the work of writers Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard and John Buchan along with the composer Edward Elgar and the architect Herbert Baker. It culminates with an analysis of their mutual infatuation with T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - who represented all their dreams for the future British Empire but whose ultimate paralysis of creative imagination exposed the fatal flaw in their psycho-political project. -- .-
Propaganda and Empire
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Imperialism and Popular Culture
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The colonisation of time
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Human Capital and Empire
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West Indian intellectuals in Britain
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Country Houses and the British Empire, 17001930
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Martial races
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Chocolate, women and empire
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Gender and imperialism
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History, Heritage, and Colonialism
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Crowns and Colonies
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Inner empire
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Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean
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Empire's daughters
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British culture and the end of empire
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Empire of Scholars
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The French Empire at War, 1940-1945
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Silk and empire
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Colonial Masculinity
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Ireland, India and empire
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Visions of Empire
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Married to the empire
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Imperialism and Music
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Photographic Subjects
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Museums and Empire
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Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, 17501820
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Imperial persuaders
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The Victorian soldier in Africa
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Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness
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British Imperialism in Cyprus, 18781915
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Britain in China
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The Suppression of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Curating empire
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Tigers and the imperial imagination
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Policing and Decolonisation
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Alfred’s empire
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Railway imperialism in China
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Radio in British India
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Living in the shadow of empire
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Images of the Army
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Empire religiosity
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India and imperial vulnerability
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New Frontiers
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Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand
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Making the British Empire, 1660-1800
[…] Imperium of the Soul encourages readers to revisit the art of figures we too often caricature or take for granted, but about whom there is still much to learn
The Journal of Modern History
Norman Etherington is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Western Australia
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526106063 |
| ISBN 10 | 152610606X |
| Title | Imperium of the Soul |
| Author | Norman Etherington |
| Series | Studies In Imperialism |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2018-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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