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Empire and Sexuality
Examines the sexual attitudes and activities of the men who ran the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hyam (history, Cambridge) describes the pervasive importance of sex both to individuals and to the dynamic of the imperial system, the domestic sexual opportunities in Victorian England contrasted with those in the colonies, and the attempts to alter native sexual practices. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR