Coronation Everest: The empire and commonwealth in the 'second Elizabethan age'

British culture and the end of empire

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 57-72

  Hansen, Peter H ^a  

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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References (22)

1. James Morris, Coronation Everest (London, Faber, 1958).
2. Peter H. Hansen, 'Vertical Boundaries, National Identities: British Mountaineering on the Frontiers of Europe and the Empire, 1868-1914', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 24:1 (1996), pp. 48-71; and see, generally, Walt Unsworth, Everest (London, Grafton, 1989).
3. Peter H. Hansen, 'Modern Mountains: The Performative Consciousness of Modernity in Britain, 1870-1940', in Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger (eds), Meanings of Modernity: Britain from the Late-Victorian Era to World War II (Oxford, Berg, 2001), pp. 185-202.
4. Jan Morris, Conundrum (New York, Signet, 1974), p. 94; Jan Morris, 'Coronation Everest', http://www.salonmag.com/wlust/feature/1998/05/04feature2.html.
5. Jan Morris, 'Coronation Everest', http://www.salonmag.com/wlust/feature/1998/05/04feature2.html.
6. Tenzing Norgay, Man of Everest (London, Harrap, 1955), pp. 230-1; Daily Express, 2 July 1953. See also Sherry Ortner, Life and Death on Mt. Everest (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999).
7. Sherry Ortner, Life and Death on Mt. Everest (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999).
8. See James H. Capshew and Karen A. Rader, 'Big Science: Price to the Present', Osiris, 2nd ser., 7 (1992), pp. 3-25; Robert Bud and Philip Gummett (eds), Cold War, Hot Science: Applied Research in Britain's Defence Laboratories 1945-1990 (Amsterdam, Harwood, 1999).
9. See Michael Ward, 'The First Ascent of Mount Everest, 1953: Dr. Griffith Pugh's Solution of the Altitude Problem', in John R. Sutton, Charles S. Houston and Geoffrey Coates (eds), Hypoxia and Molecular Medicine (Burlington, VT Queen City, 1993), pp. 184-9; John B. West, High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine (New York, Oxford University Press, 1998).
10. John B. West, High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine (New York, Oxford University Press, 1998).
11. Bernard S. Cohn, 'Representing Authority in Victorian India', in Eric Hobsbawm and Terrence Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 165-209; Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996).
12. Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996).
13. Edmund Hillary, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975), pp. 163-4; Hillary interview with the author (1998).
14. See Angela Woollacott, '"All This Is Empire I Told Myself": Australian Women's Voyages "Home" and the Articulation of Colonial Whiteness', American Historical Review, 102:4 (1997), pp. 1003-29. See also Antoinette Burton, At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998).
15. Antoinette Burton, At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1998).
16. See David Cannadine, 'The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the "Invention of Tradition", c. 1820-1977', in Hobsbawm and Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition, pp. 101-64; Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy (London, Hutchinson, 1988); R. J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth (Oxford, Clarendon, 1987).
17. Tom Nairn, The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy (London, Hutchinson, 1988); R. J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth (Oxford, Clarendon, 1987).
18. R. J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth (Oxford, Clarendon, 1987).
19. Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 337; W David McIntyre, The Commonwealth', in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. V: Historiography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 560-1.
20. W David McIntyre, The Commonwealth', in Robin W. Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. V: Historiography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 560-1.
21. John Darwin, 'Decolonization and the End of Empire', in Winks (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. V: Historiography, p. 547.
22. See Hansen, 'Confetti of Empire', p. 311.