| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Elizabeth Buettner. Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India. New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 310. $45.00.

Elizabeth Buettner's excellent study of Britons living and working in India from the late nineteenth century to Indian Independence in 1947 provides a useful counterpoint to Bernard Porter's The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (2004), in which Porter critiques the "new imperial history" for what he sees as its exaggerated focus on the effects of imperialism within domestic Britain. While Buettner's subject is not the general British population, she nonetheless demonstrates how difficult it is to make clear distinctions between metropole and colony, particularly for non-settler colonies such as India. With two of the five main chapters set in India and the remaining three in Britain, her book illuminates in ways similar to Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (2002) how experiences back "home" in Britain were central to the construction of a British-Indian imperial identity.

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