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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956236403321

Autore

Porter Bernard

Titolo

The absent-minded imperialists : empire, society, and culture in Britain / / Bernard Porter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

9786610758746

9781429459853

1429459859

9780191513411

0191513415

9780199299591

0199299595

9781280758744

1280758740

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (498 p.)

Disciplina

941.081

Soggetti

Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Imperialism - Public opinion - History - 19th century

Imperialism - Public opinion - History - 20th century

Great Britain Colonies Public opinion History 20th century

Great Britain Colonies Public opinion History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-460) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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