LEADER 03397nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910807754803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786610758746 010 $a1-4294-5985-9 010 $a0-19-151341-5 010 $a0-19-929959-5 010 $a1-280-75874-0 024 7 $a2027/heb06674 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295108 035 $a(EBL)422702 035 $a(OCoLC)437109203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096241 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096241 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10076110 035 $a(PQKB)10413904 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422702 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10271499 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL75874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7035122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7035122 035 $a(dli)HEB06674 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000138 035 $a(OCoLC)1250381681 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB161964 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295108 100 $a20040818d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe absent-minded imperialists $eempire, society, and culture in Britain /$fBernard Porter 210 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (498 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-820854-5 311 $a0-19-170092-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [430]-460) and index. 327 $aEmpire 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. 330 $aKipling, 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 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aImperialism$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aImperialism$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xPublic opinion$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aImperialism$xPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aImperialism$xPublic opinion$xHistory 676 $a941.081 700 $aPorter$b Bernard$0134198 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807754803321 996 $aThe absent-minded imperialists$91765554 997 $aUNINA