Nabobs : empire and identity in eighteenth-century Britain - ECU Libraries Catalog

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

Author/creator	Nechtman, Tillman W.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description	xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subject(s)	East India Company--Officials and employees --Social conditions --18th century. Imperialism--Social aspects --Great Britain. National characteristics, British--History --18th century. Great Britain--Social conditions --18th century. Great Britain--Colonies --History --18th century. Great Britain--Civilization --18th century.

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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.
Abstract	"Tillman Nechtman explores the relationship between Britain and its empire in the late eighteenth century through the controversy that surrounded employees of the East India Company. Labeled as 'nabobs' by their critics, Company employees returned from India, bringing the subcontinent's culture with them - souvenirs like clothing, foods, jewels, artwork, and animals. To the nabobs, imperial keepsakes were a way of narrating their imperial biographies, lives that braided Britain and India together. However, their domestic critics preferred to see Britain as distinct from empire and so saw the nabobs as a dangerous community of people who sought to reverse the currents of imperialism and to bring the empire home. Drawing on cultural, material, and visual history, this book captures a far wider picture of the fascinating controversy and sheds considerable new light on the tensions and contradictions inherent in British national identity in the late eighteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.
LCCN	2010021893
ISBN	9780521763530
ISBN	0521763533
Standard identifier#	40018475469

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