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An engaging and elevated analysis ... Prefaced by a well-balanced introduction and concluded with thoughtful contemporary implications of the research, Unhomely Empire is an approachable study for those familiar and those unfamiliar with the topic. * Social History * Thought-provoking. * Journal of British Studies * What Gust offers is a powerful account where whiteness intersects with other identities to create a distinctly 'British' identity. * Roehampton RoundTable * Onni Gust's Unhomely Empire is an exceptionally nuanced and delightfully troubling study of the ideas of belonging and estrangement at the heart of the British imperial experience threading through Scottish Highlands and India of the Company Raj. It brings together intimate questions of domicile, sexuality, and racial difference as key facets of imperial selfhood observed through overlapping lenses of history and biography in ways that have not been attempted before. * Sudipta Sen, Professor of History, University of California, Davis, USA * Situated at the intersection of histories of Britain and the British Empire, and studies of the self and racial formation, Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760- 1830 is a deep dive into the Scottish Enlightenment and its lived implications. By demonstrating how European imperial expansion, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and racial thinking informed Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging, the book makes important contributions to cultural history and the history of imperial networks. * Professor Dana Robin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA *

I recommend you publish this book. I think it is a fresh new study theoretically and empirically in the growth areas of History of emotions, new imperial studies and is also an innovative contribution to studies of the Scottish Enlightenment. --Jane Haggis, Flinders University, Australia The proposed book will be an exciting and fresh contribution to a large scholarship on colonialism and empire. It is important for many reasons, including its potential in bridging intellectual and cultural/social histories of the British Empire, and its careful examination of the significance of emotion and home in the construction of difference. I would also expect this to be a beautifully written, clear, accessible book, given the quality of the proposal. --Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia, Canada [This] book promises to make important contributions to cultural history and the history of imperial networks. It will connect intellectual histories that seem quite effete and inaccessible to those who peopled the empire in order to show how ideas developed among elite male culture shaped the world, white people's attitudes, and how they behaved. This [will be] an extremely valuable addition to the scholarship on these topics. --Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

An engaging and elevated analysis ... Prefaced by a well-balanced introduction and concluded with thoughtful contemporary implications of the research, Unhomely Empire is an approachable study for those familiar and those unfamiliar with the topic. * Social History * Thought-provoking. * Journal of British Studies * Onni Gust's Unhomely Empire is an exceptionally nuanced and delightfully troubling study of the ideas of belonging and estrangement at the heart of the British imperial experience threading through Scottish Highlands and India of the Company Raj. It brings together intimate questions of domicile, sexuality, and racial difference as key facets of imperial selfhood observed through overlapping lenses of history and biography in ways that have not been attempted before. * Sudipta Sen, Professor of History, University of California, Davis, USA * Situated at the intersection of histories of Britain and the British Empire, and studies of the self and racial formation, Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760- 1830 is a deep dive into the Scottish Enlightenment and its lived implications. By demonstrating how European imperial expansion, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and racial thinking informed Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging, the book makes important contributions to cultural history and the history of imperial networks. * Professor Dana Robin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA *

Onni Gust's Unhomely Empire is an exceptionally nuanced and delightfully troubling study of the ideas of belonging and estrangement at the heart of the British imperial experience threading through Scottish Highlands and India of the Company Raj. It brings together intimate questions of domicile, sexuality, and racial difference as key facets of imperial selfhood observed through overlapping lenses of history and biography in ways that have not been attempted before. * Sudipta Sen, Professor of History, University of California, Davis, USA *

An engaging and elevated analysis ... Prefaced by a well-balanced introduction and concluded with thoughtful contemporary implications of the research, Unhomely Empire is an approachable study for those familiar and those unfamiliar with the topic. * Social History * Onni Gust's Unhomely Empire is an exceptionally nuanced and delightfully troubling study of the ideas of belonging and estrangement at the heart of the British imperial experience threading through Scottish Highlands and India of the Company Raj. It brings together intimate questions of domicile, sexuality, and racial difference as key facets of imperial selfhood observed through overlapping lenses of history and biography in ways that have not been attempted before. * Sudipta Sen, Professor of History, University of California, Davis, USA * Situated at the intersection of histories of Britain and the British Empire, and studies of the self and racial formation, Unhomely Empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760- 1830 is a deep dive into the Scottish Enlightenment and its lived implications. By demonstrating how European imperial expansion, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and racial thinking informed Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging, the book makes important contributions to cultural history and the history of imperial networks. * Professor Dana Robin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA *

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Onni Gust is Assistant Professor of History at University of Nottingham, UK. A cultural historian of the British Empire in the ‘long’ 18th century (c. 1730–1830), their work addresses questions of belonging and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire, with a particular interest in the development of ideas of race and gender. They have taught History and Gender Studies at University College London and the London School of Economics, both UK, as well as Amherst College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts, USA.

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