Heroic Failure and the British
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0300180063
ISBN-13
9780300180060
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 2016
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
668 grams
Dimensions
16.80 x 24.20 x 3.00 cms
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From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski’s survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.
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