Nabobs: empire and identity in eighteenth-century Britain/ Tillman W. Nechtman.

By: Nechtman, Tillman WMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xiii, 266 p.: ill.; 24 cmISBN: 9780521763530; 0521763533Subject(s): Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | National characteristics, British -- History | Great Britain -- Social conditions | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History | Great Britain -- CivilizationDDC classification: 303.48
Contents:
Introduction: An imperial footprint -- An India of the mind: enlightenment and empire in eighteenth-century South Asia -- 'Flesh and blood cannot bear it': private lives and imperial taxonomies in late eighteenth-century British India -- The nabob controversy: debating global imperialism -- Imperial clutter: the nabob controversy in the public sphere -- Nabobinas: gender, luxury, race, and empire.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.

Introduction: An imperial footprint -- An India of the mind: enlightenment and empire in eighteenth-century South Asia -- 'Flesh and blood cannot bear it': private lives and imperial taxonomies in late eighteenth-century British India -- The nabob controversy: debating global imperialism -- Imperial clutter: the nabob controversy in the public sphere -- Nabobinas: gender, luxury, race, and empire.

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