The absent-minded imperialists : empire, society, and culture in Britain / Bernard Porter.
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 a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 475 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-460) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191513411 0191513415 1280758740 9781280758744 9781429459853 1429459859 9786610758746 6610758743 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |