Intimate Empires

by Tracey Rizzo, Steven Gerontakis · 2016

+ Want to read

"Based on the latest scholarship in gender, race, and empire studies, Intimate Empires offers truly global insight into the experiences of ordinary people during the Age of Empire. Written for undergraduates, it presents complex theories of identity construction in an accessible narrative and applies them to hundreds of memorable vignettes from all of the major modern empires"—Provided by publisher.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
gendergenderMore like thisLess of thisidentityidentityMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 424 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare prices

Liked Intimate Empires? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Intimate Empires. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Guyness: Deal with It Body and Soul Steve Pitt · 2005 Shares identity, masculinity, gender
  2. Muscular christianity Clifford Wallace Putney · 1994 Shares masculinity, human body, history
  3. Lords of all the world A. R. Pagden · 1995 Shares colonization, imperialism, history
  4. Power at play Michael A. Messner · 1992 Shares identity, masculinity, gender
See more recommendations →

“If you want more of the same (history about gender), start with these.”

  1. Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy Elisa Perego, Rafael Scopacasa · 2016
  2. Girlness Diane Peters · 2005
  3. Gender development Judith E. Owen Blakemore · 2008
  4. Pink Is for Boys Robb Pearlman, Eda Kaban · 2018

“If it was the colonization that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Ottoman Scramble for Africa Mostafa Minawi · 2016
  2. Gender blending Holly Devor · 1989
  3. Colonial psychiatry and "the African mind" Jock McCulloch · 1995
  4. A history of the British conquest of Afghanistan and Western India, 1838-1849 Frank H. Wallis · 2009

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Empires and Colonies in the Modern World: A Global Perspective Heather Streets-Salter, Trevor R. Getz · 2015
  2. The Social Fabric: Volume II: American Life from the Civil War to the Present Thomas L. Hartshorne, Robert A. Wheeler, John H. Cary, Julius Weinberg · 1984
  3. Gender and Sexual Identity Julie L. Nagoshi, Craig T. Nagoshi, Stephan/ie Brzuzy · 2013
  4. Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader Jean McMahon Humez · 2014

Report a problem