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Hardcover Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World Book

ISBN: 1138944297

ISBN13: 9781138944299

Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World

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Originally published in 1991. Focusing on 'boys' own' literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting...

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