Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and ethnicity on stage. Joining current historical discussions of the development of British imperial ideology, Bridget Orr argues that dramatic texts and production provide a rich and unexamined archive in which the issues attendant on the emergence of the first empire figure largely.
Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account ...
Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and ethnicity on stage. Joining current historical discussions of the development of British imperial ideology, Bridget Orr argues that dramatic texts and production provide a rich and unexamined archive in which the issues attendant on the emergence of the first empire figure largely.
Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account ...
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the consequences of their meeting?
In this collection of essays, scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds provide answers to these questions. Writing from, and between, a variety of disciplines (history, anthropology, Maori Studies, literary criticism, law, cultural studies, art history, Pacific Studies), they show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory...
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their...