books.google.co.uk - Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Empires_of_the_Imagination.html?id=tuW554NdWk8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEmpires of the Imagination
