Empire of sentiment : the death of Livingstone and the myth of Victorian imperialism
- Submitting institution
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
: B - 28B: International History
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History : B - 28B: International History
- Output identifier
- 18028748
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108182591
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107198517
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Empire of Sentiment: The death of David Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism. (xxxviii + 266 pages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018) took eight years to research and write. It uses multiple types of primary sources in Africa and Britain, dating from the pre-colonial to the contemporary period. It offers the first history of emotion and empire, told through the reconstruction of a culture of sentimentality following Livingstone’s demise. It explains how masculinity, melancholy and martyrdom nourished ideologies of race, gender and domination, and why generations of Britons and Africans believed the British empire in Africa to be liberal.
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- Non-English
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