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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Porter, Bernard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 475 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-460) and index.
ISBN:9780191513411
0191513415
1280758740
9781280758744
9781429459853
1429459859
9786610758746
6610758743
Acceso:Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff.