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In the Service of Empire - Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony (Hardcover)
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In the Service of Empire - Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony (Hardcover)
Series: Empire’s Other Histories
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Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic
service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This
book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British
Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home,
imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide
range of source material, from private papers to newspaper
articles, official papers and court records, Dussart explores the
strategic nature of the relationship, the connection between
imperialism, domesticity and a master/servant paradigm that was
deployed in different ways by varied actors often neglected in the
historical record. Positioned outside the family but inside the
private place of the home, ‘the domestic servant’ was often the
foil against which 19th-century contemporaries worked out class,
race and gender identities across metropole and colony, creating
those places in the process. The role of domestic servants in
empire thus lay not only in the labour they undertook, but also in
the way the servant-master relationship constituted ground that
helped other power relations to be imagined and contested. Dussart
explores the domestic service relationship in 19th-century Britain
and India, considering how ideas about servants and their masters
and/or mistresses spanned imperial space, and shaped peoples and
places within it.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Empire’s Other Histories |
Release date: |
February 2022 |
Authors: |
Fae Dussart
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-12116-4 |
Categories: |
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Humanities >
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General
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LSN: |
1-350-12116-9 |
Barcode: |
9781350121164 |
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