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What were the cultural factors that held the British world
together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire,
and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the
case for a 'cultural British world', and examines how it took shape
in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from
Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand.
Eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including
images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary
criticism, travel narratives, and household possessions. The book
argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the
consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British
world a sense of cohesion and identity. The cultural construction
of the British world will be essential reading for historians of
imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some
of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural
history. -- .
The relationship between Ireland and the diversity of its diasporas
has always been complex and multi-layered, but it is not until
recently that this reality has really been acknowledged in the
public sphere and indeed, amongst the scholarly community
generally. This reality is partly a consequence of both
"push-and-pull" factors and the relatively late arrival of
globalization trends to the island of Ireland itself, situated as
it is on the Atlantic seaboard between Europe and the US. Ireland
is changing however, some would say at an unprecedented speed as
compared with many of its neighbours, and the sense of Irish
identity and connection to the home country is changing too. What
is the relationship of Ireland and the Irish with its diaspora
communities and how is this articulated? The voices who speak in
New Perspectives on the Irish Abroad: The Silent People?, edited by
Micheal O hAodha and Mairtin O Cathain, "talk back" to Ireland and
Ireland talks to them, and it is in telling that we see a new
story, an emerging discourse-the narratives of the "hidden" Irish,
the migrant Irish, the diaspora whose voices and refrains were
hitherto neglected or subject to silence.
This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in
the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and
political interconnections between nineteenth-century British
imperial, Irish and Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues that
Ireland was a crucial sub-imperial centre for the British Empire in
South Asia that provided a significant amount of the manpower,
intellectual and financial capital that fuelled Britain's drive
into Asia from the 1750s onwards. He shows the important role that
Ireland played as a centre for recruitment for the armed forces,
the medical and civil services and the many missionary and
scientific bodies established in South Asia during the colonial
period. In doing so, the book also reveals the important part that
the Empire played in shaping Ireland's domestic institutions,
family life and identity in equally significant ways.
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