{"product_id":"imperial-nostalgia-how-the-british-conquered-themselves","title":"Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eA short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths that structure our views of empire came to be, and how they inform the present. Taking in such diverse subjects as Rory Stewart and inter-war adventure fiction, man’s facial hair and Kipling, the Alt-right and the Red Wall, \u003ci\u003eImperial Nostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e asks how our relationship with our national past has gone wrong, and how it might be improved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 276g\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 130 x 197 x 22 (mm)\n                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781526146205\n                            \n                          \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44099543007482,"sku":"9781526146205","price":13.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/b2f3cbdf776ae63f88cfe737383c21f5.jpg?v=1632194658","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/imperial-nostalgia-how-the-british-conquered-themselves","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}