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Cambridge University Press Nabobs: Empire and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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In this book, 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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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Model: Illustrated
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521763533
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 August 2010
Listed Since: 23 November 2009

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