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Visions of Empire

Patriotism, Popular Culture and the City, 1870-1939. Studies in Imperialism

By (author) Brad Beaven
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 3rd Jan 2017
Dimensions: w 155mm h 233mm d 17mm
Weight: 415g
ISBN-10: 1526106698
ISBN-13: 9781526106698
Barcode No: 9781526106698
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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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Visions of Empire is a welcome addition to
the debate about British cultural imperialism.
With the advent of 'the global', paying heed
to 'the local' can add much to historical
understanding. A new history of empire is
developing which highlights the ambiguity
and elasticity of popular imperialism. Beaven's
work advances this and presents a
serious challenge to recent national and transnational
studies of the cultural dispersal of
imperial ideas. -- .