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The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain

By Bernard Porter

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2005
ISBN
0198208545, 9780198208549
LCC
DA18 .P65 2004
Open Library ID
OL22606272M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5026891 bytes)
Pages
498\498
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. 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. He argues that though Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society.

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