Absent-Minded Imperialists Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain

Name: Absent-Minded Imperialists Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
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ISBN: 9780199299591

ISBN-10: 0199299595

ISBN-13: 9780199299591

Edition: 2006

Authors: Bernard Porter

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The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, security, population, and eating habits. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. Indeed, this has now become the conventional wisdom: that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected (or infected) almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This is the first book to examine this assumption critically against the broader background of contemporary British society.…

Book details

List price: $72.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.738



List of Illustrations



Empire and Society



Participation



The Prefects



The Middle Classes at School



Trade, Liberty, and Empire: The Middle Classes to 1880



Not in Front of the Servants



Culture and Imperialism



Peril and Propaganda, c.1900



What about the Workers?



Imperialists, Other Imperialists, and Others



Empire on Condition, 1914-1940



Repercussions



Recapitulation and Conclusion


Endnotes


Select Bibliography


Index