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Imperial Crossings: British Identities and the “Imperial Imaginary”

Much of the energy in British history and literature in recent years has emerged from areas of study once regarded as peripheral. Historians of women, empire, and the colonies, for example, have fundamentally reoriented our understanding of the fundamental categories of British history. Historians and literary theorists have questioned the artificial divide between Britain and empire and have charted the analytic paths historians might take to render a more complicated picture of modernity, empire, and British history. They have demonstrated the centrality of representation to the making of empire and to the formation of class and racial identities. In addition, recent work has shown the importance of gender ideologies to nation building and identity both in England and its colonies from as early as the seventeenth century into the twentieth century.' This spirit of pursuing adventurous enquiry from the margins unites the five books under review here. The rise of Evangelicalism, the abolition of British slavery, and the ambiguous pursuit of abolition in Africa