The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster

by C C (Reader in History Eldridge

This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and poets, surveys of popular culture and anti-empire views are also included. By adopting a longer chronological context, the high level of continuity in beliefs and actions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is highlighted. As a result, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333437764
• ISBN13: 9780333437766
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"