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Imperial Boredom Monotony And The British Empire Jeffrey A Auerbach

SKU: BELL-37597000

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 3.92 MB

Pages: 320

Author: Jeffrey A. Auerbach

ISBN: 9780198827375, 0198827377

Language: English

Year: 2018

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Imperial Boredom Monotony And The British Empire Jeffrey A Auerbach by Jeffrey A. Auerbach 9780198827375, 0198827377 instant download after payment.

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around
the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of Empire.
This volume looks at what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India, and agrues that for numerous men and women, from governors to convicts, explorers to tourists, the Victorian Empire was dull
and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, it demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work unfulfilling.
Ocean voyages were tedious; colonial rule was bureaucratic; warfare was infrequent; economic opportunity was limited; and indigenous people were largely invisible. The seventeenth-century Empire may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project.