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An extensively researched account of the history of the cave man character in modern popular culture, tracing its roots back to Victorian Britain -- .

(Hardback)

Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised British overseas identity.