Empire of sentiment : the death of Livingstone and the myth of Victorian imperialism / Joanna Lewis (London School of Economics and Political Science).

This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British imperialism and Victorian humanitarianism and inserted it into popular culture. Sacrifice and death; Superman like heroism; the devotion of Africans; the cruelty of Ar...

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