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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"imperial identity"”.
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Cultivating imperial identity: the garden city and urban landscapes in London, Calcutta and Delhi, c. 1860-1931
… and colony. By considering the garden as imperial place-maker, I analyze how the garden was transmitted across multiple geographies and scales, foregrounding it as a modern site not just of aesthetic appeal but of disciplinary power. It was at once a mechanism for sifting out the …
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"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
… body, sexuality, race, gender, and national and imperial identity.
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"The ""End of the Earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian Imperial Imagination, 1849--1906"
… in penal reform, and the resulting new Sakhalin identity, the dissertation explores the relationships between discourse and policy, science and its implementation, and Russian identity as defined from above and as experienced from below. Sources include not only the scientific data of explorers …
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"The ""end of the earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906"
… in penal reform, and the resulting new Sakhalin identity, the dissertation explores the relationships between discourse and policy, science and its implementation, and Russian identity as defined from above and as experienced from below. Sources include not only the scientific data of explorers …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
… in contemporary constructions of domestic and imperial identity. Taking a culture-wide, integrative approach, this thesis explores the chronological trajectory of the reception of Rome during the Victorian era. Surveying the interplay of domestic and external causes behind the Roman revival, it …
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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… his adolescence in Britain, coalesced in an imperial identity that dictated he should dominate the indigenous people with whom he came into contact. Webster spent most of the next 60 years in Hokianga, where he found his ambition to assert political dominance over his Maori neighbours …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
… The Butlers were part of those British imperial currents that washed over mid Atlantic America for the better part of the eighteenth century. In particular their experience reinforces those studies that recognize the impact that the Anglo-Irish experience had on the British Imperial …
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"A ""Greater Britain"": colonial kin in fictions of settlement, 1850-1890"
… other, a fundamental challenge to ideas about imperial integrity and transnational Anglo-Saxon racial identification. I argue that representations of transoceanic white families in nineteenth-century fictions about Australian settler colonialism negotiate the tension between the bounded …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
… of cartography as a means for projecting Mughal imperial identity in the face of a growing Company dominance. Using a body of previously unexplored maps and cartographic drawings I show how painters used topographic markers to illustrate Mughal presence using both European and local conventions …