In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony

by Fae Dussart

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Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, official papers and court records, Dussart explores...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1350242608

ISBN13:9781350242609

Release Date:August 2023

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.79 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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