Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div>If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. So E. M. Forster famously observed in his <I>Two Cheers for Democracy</I>. Forsters epigrammatic manifesto where the idea of the friend stands as a metaphor for dissident cross-cultural collaboration holds the key Leela Gandhi argues in <I>Affective Communities</I> to the hitherto neglected history of western anti-imperialism. Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with victims of their own expansionist cultures she uncovers the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that emerged in Europe specifically in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Gandhi reveals for the first time how those associated with marginalized lifestyles subcultures and traditionsincluding homosexuality vegetarianism animal rights spiritualism and aestheticismunited against imperialism and forged strong bonds with co