The Mythology of British Imperialism: 1880-1974
Author | : Cynthia Fansler Behrman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Cynthia Fansler Behrman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cynthia Fansler Behrman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Robert Macdonald |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1526123711 |
The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.
Author | : Cynthia Fansler Behrman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Jonah Raskin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Colonies in literature |
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Author | : Wesley Frank Craven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Edward Beasley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780714656106 |
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.
Author | : D.A. Low |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113627359X |
First published in 1973. Part of the studies in Commonwealth Politics and History series, this volume is a collection of essays with the topics of Empire and authority, social engineering, traditional rulership, Christianity, the sequence in the demission of power, and the political aftermath of the British Empire.
Author | : Robin W. Winks |
Publisher | : New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Andrew S. Thompson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317873882 |
`The Empire Strikes Back' will inject the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, Britain's empire was so large that it was truly the global superpower. Much of Africa, Asia and America had been subsumed. Britannia's tentacles had stretched both wide and deep. Culture, Religion, Health, Sexuality, Law and Order were all impacted in the dominated countries. `The Empire Strikes Back' shows how the dependent states were subsumed and then hit back, affecting in turn England itself.