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The absent-minded imperialists: empire, society, and culture in Britain

Bernard Porter 2004 © Oxford University Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780199299591 (paper)
  • 9780198208549 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xxi)
  • I. Empire and Society (page 1)
  • 2. Participation (page 25)
  • 3. The Prefects (page 39)
  • 4. The Middle Classes at School (page 64)
  • 5. Trade, Liberty, and Empire: The Middle Classes to 1880 (page 83)
  • 6. Not in Front of the Servants (page 115)
  • 7. Culture and Imperialism (page 134)
  • 8. Peril and Propaganda, c.1900 (page 164)
  • 9. What about the Workers? (page 194)
  • 10. Imperialists, Other Imperialists, and Others (page 227)
  • II. Empire on Condition, 1914-1940 (page 255)
  • I2. Repercussions (page 283)
  • I3. Recapitulation and Conclusion (page 306)
  • Endnotes (page 322)
  • Select Bibliography (page 430)
  • Index (page 461)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
EHR 120.488 (Sep. 2005): 1061-1063 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3489243
RMR 61.2 (Fall 2007): 89-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20058193
VS 47.4 (Summer 2005): 626-628 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3829663
AHR 112.2 (Apr. 2007): 587-588 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4136747
PEX 20.114 (Nov.-Dec. 2006): 195-202 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20646008
IHR 28.1 (Mar. 2006): 172-173 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40110747
HWJ 62 (Autumn 2006): 264-278 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472885
RHMC 57.1 (Jan.-Mar. 2010): 191-203 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27862107
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