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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Cannadine |
ISBN: | 019515794X 9780195157949 |
OCLC Number: | 51212786 |
Notes: | "First Oxford University Press paperback, 2002"--t.p. verso. Originally published: Oxford University Press, 2001. |
Description: | xxiv, 263, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | pt. one. Beginnings : Prologue -- Precursors -- pt. two. Localities : Dominions -- India -- Colonies -- Mandates -- pt. three. Generalities : Honours -- Monarchs -- Perspectives -- Limitations -- Part four : Endings : Dissolution -- Epilogue -- Appendix: An imperial childhood? |
Responsibility: | David Cannadine. |
Abstract:
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.
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