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Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Tillman W. Nechtman


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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. Labelled 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.

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  • Title Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Author Tillman W. Nechtman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 282
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
  • Date 2010-08-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780521763530 / 0521763533
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Colonies - History - 18th, Great Britain - Civilization - 18th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010021893
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.482
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