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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 1-19
  3. The Revival of the Imperial Spirit
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 20-54
  4. The Imperial Adventure
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 55-77
  5. By Jingo!
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 78-102
  6. The Imperial Idea
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 103-118
  7. The White Man’s Burden
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 119-139
  8. A Question of Race?
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 140-166
  9. ‘Too Late’
    C. C. Eldridge
    Pages 167-182
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 183-212
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About this book

Introduction

This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and poets, surveys of popular culture and anti-empire views are also included. By adopting a longer chronological context, the high level of continuity in beliefs and actions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is highlighted. As a result, the period is viewed as a dramatic episode in a much longer story.

Keywords

continuity culture drama empire experience Inuit Victorian era

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