British Empire and Its Contested Pasts, Hardcover by Blyth, Robert (EDT); Jeffery, Keith (EDT), ISBN 0716530163, ISBN-13 9780716530169, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Historians, most from Britain and the successor states, take the British Empire as the most fertile modern example to explore the manner in which empires are portrayed by historians. The overarching themes are histories of empire, the civilizing mission, impacts of the Asian empire, and Irish perspectives. The topics include imperial history and propaganda 1939-45; New Christians and the Qua Iboe mission , Indian students and their perceptions of Britain 1907-39, John Nicholson as a British and Irish imperial hero among the Hindu, Patrick Pearse and Ireland's position in the empire, and the Irish romance of Afrikaner anti-imperialism. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()