Studies in Mid-Victorian Imperialism
Author: Carl Adolf Gottlieb Bodelsen
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl Adolf Gottlieb Bodelsen
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward Beasley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1135765758
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an empirical study of just where in Victorian culture the ideology of imperialism left clear traces of itself. The well-written investigations bring to life how certain men thought about the British Empire between the 1830s and 1868.
Author: Edward Beasley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 113576574X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69. These men included imperial officials, leading settlers, British politicians and writers, and Beasley looks at the common trends in their beliefs about the British Empire and how their thoughts changed during their lives to show how Mid-Victorian theories of racial, cultural and political classification arose.
Author: C. C. Eldridge
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernard Porter
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2004-11-25
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 0191513415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Edward Beasley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780714656106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A key addition to our understanding of the Victorian-era British Empire, this book looks at the founders of the Colonial Society and the ideas that led them down the path to imperialism.