Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism by Joanna Lewis

Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism

Joanna Lewis

302 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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...

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