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Empire of Sentiment - The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism (Paperback)
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Empire of Sentiment - The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism (Paperback)
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This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna
Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British
imperialism and Victorian humanitarianism and inserted it into
popular culture. Sacrifice and death; Superman like heroism; the
devotion of Africans; the cruelty of Arab slavery; and the
sufferings of the 'ordinary man', generated waves of sentimental
feeling. These powerful myths, images and feelings incubated down
the generations - through grand ceremonies, further exploration,
humanitarianism, Christian teaching, narratives of masculine
endeavour and heroic biography - inspiring colonial rule in Africa,
white settler pioneers, missionaries and Africans. Empire of
Sentiment demonstrates how this central African story shaped
Britain's romantic perception of itself as a humane power overseas
when the colonial reality fell far short. Through sentimental
humanitarianism, Livingstone helped sustain a British Empire in
Africa that remained profoundly Victorian, polyphonic and
ideological; whilst always understood at home as proudly liberal on
race.
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