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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- English
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Publisher
Manchester University PressYear
2017Print ISBN
9781526106698
9780719078569
eBook ISBN
9781526117557
Table of contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- General editor's introduction
- Introduction
- Cities in context: civic culture, ‘New Journalism’ and the creation of localised imperial identities, 1870–1939
- The city and the imperial mission, 1850–1914
- Civic ceremony and the citizen-soldier during the Boer War, 1899–1902
- Fragmenting communities: patriotism, empire and the First World War
- Educating the future citizens of empire: working-class schooling, 1870–1939
- Transmitting the imperial message: Empire Day and the 1924 Wembley Exhibition
- Mass entertainment, popular culture and imperial societies, 1870–1939
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Principal newspapers in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds c. 1800–1940
- Appendix 2: A sample of theatre, music hall and cinema entertainment in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds, 1870–1939
- References
- Index
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