An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption

Professor Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
12 January 2017
Pages
184
ISBN
9781474230155

An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empire: Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption

Professor Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

An ABC of Queen Victoria’s Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames’ ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames’ book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria’s reign.

This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria’s empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanistan and ending with Zam-Zammeh, the large-bore cannon that Kipling’s hero sat astride at the opening of his 1901 novel, Kim. It signposts some of the key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the turbulent ground of empire across the long 19th century, providing a serious counterweight to the notion of imperial conquest as child’s play.

With each letter accompanied by a crisp yet historically nuanced account of its subject, this unique account is the perfect primer for students taking courses on global, imperial and British history.

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