03208nam 2200673 a 450 991046561880332120200520144314.097866107587461-4294-5985-90-19-151341-50-19-929959-51-280-75874-0(CKB)2560000000295108(EBL)422702(OCoLC)437109203(SSID)ssj0000096241(PQKBManifestationID)11119762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096241(PQKBWorkID)10076110(PQKB)10413904(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022257(MiAaPQ)EBC422702(Au-PeEL)EBL422702(CaPaEBR)ebr10271499(CaONFJC)MIL75874(EXLCZ)99256000000029510820040818d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe absent-minded imperialists[electronic resource] empire, society, and culture in Britain /Bernard PorterOxford [England] ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (498 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-820854-5 0-19-170092-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-460) and index.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.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 tPublic opinionGreat BritainHistory20th centuryImperialismPublic opinionHistory19th centuryImperialismPublic opinionHistory20th centuryGreat BritainColoniesPublic opinionHistory20th centuryGreat BritainColoniesPublic opinionHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Public opinionHistoryImperialismPublic opinionHistoryImperialismPublic opinionHistory941.081Porter Bernard134198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465618803321The absent-minded imperialists1765554UNINA