The Absent-Minded Imperialists
Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, security, population, and eating habits. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. Indeed, this has now become the conventional wisdom: that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected (or infected) almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This is the first book to examine this assumption critically against the broader background of contemporary British society. Bernard Porter, a leading imperial historian, argues that the empire had a far lower profile in Britain than it did abroad. Many Britons could hardly have been aware of it for most of the nineteenth century and only a small number was in any way committed to it. Between these extremes opinions differed widely over what was even meant by the empire. This depended largely on class, and even when people were aware of the empire, it had no appreciable impact on their thinking about anything else. Indeed, the influence far more often went the other way, with perceptions of the empire being affected (or distorted) by more powerful domestic discourses. Although Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society.
As well as showing how this was possible, Porter also discusses the implications of this attitude for Britain and her empire, and for the relationship between culture and imperialism more generally, bringing his study up to date by including the case of the present-day USA.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Absent-Minded Imperialists “
- 1: Empire and Society
- 2: Participation
- 3: The Prefects
- 4: The Middle Classes at School
- 5: Trade, Liberty, and Empire: the Middle Classes to 1880
- 6: Not in Front of the Servants
- 7: Culture and Empire
- 8: Peril and Propaganda c.1900
- 9: What About the Workers?
- 10: Imperialists, Other Imperialists, and Others
- 11: Empire on Condition 1914-40
- 12: Repercussions
- 13: Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- 1: Empire and Society
- 2: Participation
- 3: The Prefects
- 4: The Middle Classes at School
- 5: Trade, Liberty, and Empire: the Middle Classes to 1880
- 6: Not in Front of the Servants
- 7: Culture and Empire
- 8: Peril and Propaganda c.1900
- 9: What About the Workers?
- 10: Imperialists, Other Imperialists, and Others
- 11: Empire on Condition 1914-40
- 12: Repercussions
- 13: Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bernard Porter
- 2006, 504 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199299595
- ISBN-13: 9780199299591
Sprache:
Englisch
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...[a] spirited and wide-ranging polemic ... an important book in every respect ... highly readable, and perfectly pitched to win friends and provoke enemies. Stuart Ward, History Workshop Journal
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