Ends of Empire: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985

by Laura Brown

Book Overview

In this bold and provocative book, Laura Brown explores the representation of women in English literature from the Restoration to the fall of Walpole--a time during which an expansionist economic system was consolidated, a fertile ideology advocating a benevolent and progressive imperialism took root, and the slave trade was institutionalized. In this period, she maintains, the image of the female not only played a leading role in literary culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801480957
• ISBN13: 9780801480959
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.4"