Signature on inside cover.118pp.
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1989, Paperback, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: . First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0199630178

Inventory #16675

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 6.45 approx. - € 5.53 approx.)

201pp.
The Kent State University Press, 2009, Paperback, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781606350119

Inventory #27680

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 12.26 approx. - € 10.50 approx.)

Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers, so instrumental in popularising the imperial agenda of power and dominance, bore deep emotional scars and as adults bolstered their fragile psychic states through fantasies of empire. While soldiers and politicians may know to bury or at least camouflage their fears and desires, inner fantasy is the necessary ingredient of literature, and popular fiction often offers the opportunity to probe the mind of an age. The connection between childhood loss and the desire for imperial escape, power and dominance is illuminated by De Quincey's mad screeds against the Chinese as both terrifyingly powerful and laughably weak, while Stevenson's romances, though written from an invalid's bed, are credited with 'selling' the idea of empire as manly adventure. Conan Doyle's tales of a Britain menaced at home by imperial blowback are models of Great Power paranoia that resonate today, and Kipling's stories of imperial Britain grow increasingly grandiose as childhood's psychic wounds are re-opened. Finally, Dinesen portrays plantation life in British East Africa as a gentle romance in which displaced African "squatters" serve as loyal and adoring retainers, providing the aristocratic aura for which the author yearns. It is sometimes said that, "Love's loss is empire's gain", and for these writers, Simmons shows, empire presented a magnificent opportunity to compensate for childhood calamity.148pp.
Sussex Academic Press, 2007, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 1845191560

Inventory #17826

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 38.70 approx. - € 33.15 approx.)

Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States. The main argument is that race is a defining characteristic of politics and has played, and continues to play, a central role in the political systems of present-day societies. This is a book that inserts race as a core element in the political science paradigm, as it addresses the questions of why and how race became a central aspect of contemporary politics.222pp.
The Golden Dog Press, 2002, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0919614922

Inventory #18002

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.68 approx. - € 8.29 approx.)

Previous owners inscription to ffep. Fading and reading crease to spine. 130pp.
Crossroad, 1992, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0824510828

Inventory #26055

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 9.68 approx. - € 8.29 approx.)