Britain's Imperial Muse

Britain's Imperial Muse
Author: C. Hagerman
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 113731642X

Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal used by commentators to justify conquest and domination, especially of India.