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Imperial Britain : the Empire in British politics, c.1880-1932 / Andrew S. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Andrew S. (Andrew Stuart), 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism--Public opinion.
- History.
- Imperialism.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Imperialism--Public opinion--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Imperialism--Public opinion--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1901-1936.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 219 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000.
- Summary:
- & This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic, demographic, intellectual and military influences and he shows how parliamentary and party opinion interacted with imperial ideas and interests in the country at large. This is a major new book which explores the ideology of key imperial campaigns, and their popular support. It makes a critical contribution to recent debates -- about the importance of empire to the nature and development of British national identities before and after the First World War.
- Contents:
- 1 Imperial Languages, Identities and Beliefs 15
- Languages of imperialism 15
- Imagining empire: the idea of a British world 17
- Imperial reform 25
- Dominion nationalism and imperial integration 28
- Margins of empire: India and America 32
- 2 Mobilising Imperialists 38
- The mainsprings of imperial politics 38
- Extra-parliamentary agitation and empire 39
- The Tariff Reform League 41
- The Navy League 44
- The Emigration Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute 46
- The political status of imperial campaigns 49
- Imperialism as a broad church 52
- 3 Propagating Imperialism 61
- The imperialising of the British press 61
- The new journalism and the old 62
- The press and imperial agitation 69
- The Imperial Press Conference (1909) 75
- 4 Imperial Trade: Tariff Reform 81
- Joseph Chamberlain and the origins of tariff reform 81
- The background to the campaign 83
- Imperial preference and the economic unity of empire 85
- The colonial perspective 90
- India and imperial preference 97
- Critics of preference: past and present 104
- 5 Imperial Security: Naval Supremacy and Defence Planning 110
- Defending the Empire: the debate 110
- The doctrine of sea power and the defence of empire 111
- The size, distribution and composition of the Fleet 112
- Colonial participation in imperial defence 119
- Defence planning and the Committee of Imperial Defence 127
- 6 Populating the Empire: Overseas Migration 133
- British overseas migration in the long nineteenth century 133
- The benefits of empire migration 135
- Voluntary effort versus state involvement 139
- Migrant personality 141
- Testing the suitability of migrants 152
- 7 The First World War and its Imperial Aftermath 157
- The Empire at war 157
- The Empire in the aftermath of the War 161
- Imperialists in the Lloyd George Coalition 169
- The Imperial War Cabinet and imperial foreign policy 171
- The Washington naval treaty (1921-22) and the Singapore strategy 175
- Tariff reform redivivus, the Empire Marketing Board, and the Empire Settlement Act 178.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582319218
- 058231920X
- OCLC:
- 41620277
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