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Heroic failure and the British

Barczewski, Stephanie L.2016
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In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humourous stories from history, Barczewski's survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.
Main title:
Heroic failure and the British / Stephanie Barczewski.
Author:
Barczewski, Stephanie L., author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Collation:
280 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780300180060 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
National characteristics, BritishFailure (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- HistoryHeroes -- Great Britain -- HistoryGreat Britain -- CivilizationHistory
BRN:
1096543
Bookmark link:
https://kent.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=1096543

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