War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma

War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
ISBN-10
0691133328
ISBN-13
9780691133324
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
334
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Christopher Herbert

Description

Christopher Herbert considers why the Victorian public saw the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59 as an epochal event and offers a view of this episode, and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally.

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