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

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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Основен автор: Porter, Bernard, (Author)
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=186585
Подобни документи: Print version:: Absent-minded imperialists.
Съдържание:
  • 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.