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The conclusion looks back over the preceding chapters, considering the inability of a small group of closely interconnected regional and national elites to reshape English attitudes about the nation’s collective ‘racial’ strength in the wake of the South African War. It considers the absence of references to racial decline as a reflection of an inability and an unwillingness of commentators to challenge the dominant narrative of British imperial supremacy.
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John Darwin, The Empire Project (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p.256
Quoted in Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilization (2009; London: Penguin, 2010), p.11
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Prior, C. (2013). Conclusion. In: Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline: An Empire’s Future. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373410_5
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