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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Ephraim George Squier
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385537614
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1888
Category : English literature
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Author : Collins William sons and co, ltd
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1885
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Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
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ISBN : 9788131723302
Author : Maria Hack
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Vincent Thomas Murché
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Bernard Porter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0191513415
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 : H. Bates
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368133160
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Samuel Augustus Mitchell (Jr.)
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Richard Newton
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Eretz Israel
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