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The absent-minded imperialists : empire, society, and culture in Britain / Bernard Porter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Public opinion.
- Imperialism--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- Imperialism.
- Imperialism--Public opinion--History--20th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Public opinion--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Public opinion--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (498 p.)
- Other Title:
- Empire, society, and culture in Britain
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many were hardly aware of it at all. This lively book is the first study of the impact of the empire on British society and culture that looks beneath the surface to find out what people really thought, with some surprising results. - ;The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in t
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-460) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610758746
- 9781429459853
- 1429459859
- 9780191513411
- 0191513415
- 9780199299591
- 0199299595
- 9781280758744
- 1280758740
- OCLC:
- 437109203
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb06674 hdl
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