Chapter 1 Introduction, Bill Schwarz; Chapter 2 Conquerors of Truth, Bill Schwarz; Chapter 3 History Lessons, Couze Venn; Chapter 4 History and Poststructuralism, Bob Chase; Chapter 5 Walter Scott, Bob Chase; Chapter 6 Imperial Man, Catherine Hall; Chapter 7 ‘Under The Hatches’, Gwyneth Tyson Roberts; Chapter 8 Fertile Land, Romantic Spaces, Uncivilized Peoples, Kenneth Parker; Chapter 9 Foreign Devils and Moral Panics, Andrew Blake;
Bill Schwarz is Reader in Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. He has coedited On Ideology (1978), Making Histories (1982), and Crises in the British State, 1880–1930 (1985), and he is on the editorial collectives of History Workshop Journal and Cultural Studies.
"This collection of powerful essays is a landmark text in cultural
history. Boldly interpretive, global in scope, and richly
informative, this volume makes a stimulating and original addition
to a key public debate."
-Moira Ferguson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
""The Expansion of England is a remarkably fertile exploration of
the "English national character"--moral, political,
psychological--as it emerges from Britain's imperial entanglements.
The hubris of high Victorian ideas (suddenly so fashionable) are
severely put on trial by these colonial texts from Wales, from West
Indies, China and the Xhosa nation. Arguing for a revisionary
historiography, this book turns the archives into a place of
critical adventure."
-Homi Bhabha, University of Chicago
"This volume contributes to key debates in social and cultural
history, approaches which have too often been isolated to the
impoverishment of both. The essays combine a serious engagement
with critical theory and a sharp sense of historical specificity
and change, the shifting and conflicting perspectives that were at
the heart of the colonising project itself. British social history
has often been written in isolation from the shaping experiences of
empire and racial difference. There is now less excuse for that
omission."
-Robert Gray, University of Portsmouth
"It was created by enthusiastic scholars, and for enthusiasts of
the subject."
-"The International History Review, Mar ch 1998
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