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Visions of Empire: Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870-1939

Visions of Empire: Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870-1939

Beaven, Brad

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 99

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0719078563
ISBN13: 9780719078569
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians.

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project.

Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.

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