MID-VICTORIAN IMPERIALISTS by Edward Beasley ( 9780714656984 )

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Title:

MID-VICTORIAN IMPERIALISTS
BRITISH GENTLEMEN AND THE EMPIRE OF THE MIND

By:

Edward Beasley

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0714656984

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

21 June, 2005

Series:

British Politics and Society

Pages:

240

Description:

This is an empirical study of just where in Victorian culture the ideology of imperialism left clear traces of itself. The investigations bring to life how certain men thought about the British Empire between the 1830s and 1868.

Synopsis:

Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69. These men included imperial officials, leading settlers, British politicians and writers, and Beasley looks at the common trends in their beliefs about the British Empire and how their thoughts changed during their lives to show how Mid-Victorian theories of racial, cultural and political classification arose.

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