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Prologue: Strollers without borders -- Introduction: Britain's theatrical empire -- Peripheralizing the spheres : theatrical assemblages of the imperial provinces -- Rowe's Fair penitent as global history : colonial family strategies and the imperatives of nation -- The lure of the other : Jews, Nabobs and enslaved Africans in a transcolonial imaginary -- Performances of freedom : Jamaican Maroons in imperial transit -- Blackface empire : or, the slavery meridian -- Zanga's colony : revenge in Sydney -- Performing the wonder in Sumatra : theatrical ethnography in a New World history -- In conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as center of the British world.

Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, The Island Race: Englishness, empire and gender in the eighteenth century is an innovative study of the issues of nation, gender and identity. Wilson bases her analysis on a wide range of case studies drawn both from Britain and across the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. Creating a colourful and original colonial landscape, she considers topics such as:* sodomy* theatre* masculinity* the symbolism of Britannia * the role of women in war.Wilson shows the far-reaching implications that colonial power and expansion had upon the English peop

British women's participation in public life expanded significantly in the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, when women served as crucial actors in the home front's battles of ideas and political loyalties. But as war with Revolutionary France escalated, and British women were enjoined by conservatives to refrain from politics, some responded by enacting a 'female masculinity' that demonstrated that neither patriotism nor masculine values were ever solely the product of male bodies and their effects. The impact of this 'female masculinity' on perceptions of gender is traced in popular political culture and in attitudes towards Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton, two controversial figures of the day. Their unconventional gender performances and their representation illuminated a larger shift in the valences of body politics, from the universal and neo-classical forms of the eighteenth-century public sphere to the fragmented and individuated images of nineteenth-century modernity.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to link crowdsourcing, operations management (OM) and project management (PM). The study demonstrates how crowdsourcing as an open innovation mechanism is operationalised within a complex PM context. Specifically, the study seeks to understand how crowdsourcing as a novel form of OM improves key outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted exploratory research involving five pure-play crowdsourcing firms based in the USA and Australia.FindingsThe findings indicate that the firms practise a form of crowdsourcing that allows flexible, efficient and low risk operations and links to contemporary notions of PM such as projectification and project society. The crowd can be used in a new manner to boost success factors tied to PM through open innovation and operational novelty. In terms of OM, crowdsourcing offers flexibility, speed, dynamism and scalability to project processes.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is based on five case studies. Further fine-grained, longitudinal research is required to fully understand this phenomenon in a wider range of contexts.Practical implicationsThe paper contributes to practices tied to open innovation and provides guidance on how organisations might use large crowds to enhance PM success.Originality/valueThe study represents early scholarship on crowdsourcing and project operations. It makes three contributions. First, the authors introduce a new theoretical framework linking PM and novel aspects of crowdsourcing to extend understandings of projectification, as well as open innovation frameworks. Second, the authors showcase the flexibility and fluidity of the crowdsourcing project process. Third, the authors examine crowdsourcing operations in terms of size, efficiency and scalability which results in timely and efficient output due to innovative technology, along with the element of trust among stakeholders.