The Absent-Minded Imperialists

副标题: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain

ISBN: 9780198208549

出版社: Oxford University Press

出版年: 2005-1-13

页数: 498

定价: USD 43.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.