Heroic failure and the British

In this work, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humourou...

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Main Author:	Barczewski, Stephanie L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven Yale University Press [2016]
Subjects:	National characteristics, British Failure (Psychology) > Great Britain > History Heroes > Great Britain > History
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