The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter ISBN 13: 9780198208549

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.3 cm. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover, and ink stamps to endpapers, including withdrawn stamp. Bindings and spine firm and intact. A good used copy with no major defects. Publisher's note: 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… Read more