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UNISA996401350203316 |
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Autore |
Porter Bernard |
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Titolo |
The absent-minded imperialists [[electronic resource] ] : empire, society, and culture in Britain / / Bernard Porter |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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9786610758746 |
1-4294-5985-9 |
0-19-151341-5 |
0-19-929959-5 |
1-280-75874-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (498 p.) |
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Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Imperialism - Public opinion - History - 19th century |
Imperialism - Public opinion - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Colonies Public opinion History 20th century |
Great Britain Colonies Public opinion History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-460) and index. |
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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. |
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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. - ; |
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The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in t |
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UNINA9910800083003321 |
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Literacy, narrative and culture / / edited by Jens Brockmeier, Min Wang and David R. Olson |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-136-85810-5 |
0-415-76002-X |
1-315-02900-6 |
1-136-85803-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrockmeierJens |
OlsonDavid R. <1935-> |
WangMin |
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Language and culture |
Literacy |
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Note generali |
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First published in 2002 by Curzon Press. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction: What is a culture of literacy?; Part 1: Written culture; 2 The literacy episteme: The rise and fall of a cultural discourse; 3 Literacy and the future of writing: An integrational perspective; 4 The construction of mind and self in an interpretive community; 5 Hunting, tracking and reading; 6 Narrative distancing: A foundation of literacy; Part 2: The shaping of modern written culture; 7 Letters and pictures in seventeenth-century education; 8 Painters and literacy |
9 ""Dumb significants"" and Early Modern English definition10 The spread of culture: Subscription libraries in France in the nineteenth century; 11 The essay as a literary and academic form: Closed gate or open door?; Part 3: Literacy as cultural learning; 12 Writing as a form of quotation; 13 Children's conceptions of name: A study on |
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metalinguistic awareness in Italian children; 14 The distinction between graphic system and orthographic system and their pertinence for understanding the acquisition of orthography; 15 Children's analysis of oral and written words |
16 Young children's ""clever misunderstandings"" about print17 Literacy and metalinguistic thought: Development through knowledge construction and cultural mediation; 18 Making new or making do: Epistemological, normative and pragmatic aspects of reading a text; Contributors; Subject Index; Name Index |
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An important contribution to the multi-disciplinary study of literacy, narrative and culture, this work argues that literacy is perhaps best described as an ensemble of socially and historically embedded activities of cultural practices. It suggests viewing written language, producing and distributing, deciphering and interpreting signs, are closely related to other cultural practices such as narrative and painting. The papers of the first and second parts illustrate this view in contexts that range from the pre-historical beginnings of tracking signs' in hunter-gatherer cultu |
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