Antiempire

Black Beauty is a new gendered text of empire, embedding an innovative discourse that is anticapture, anticruelty, antiwar, and antiempire yet shies from any critique of antediluvian feudal relations. Consequently, Sewell could not easily bring ...

In light of these changes, it is tempting to label the period from 1783 to 1880 as “antiempire” because of the dampened enthusiasm for large-scale imperialist activities.