Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography.
Trade ReviewVisions 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.
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Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s introduction
Introduction
1. Cities in context: Civic culture, new journalism and the creation of local and imperial identities, 1870–1939
2. The city and the imperial mission 1850–1914
3. Civic ceremony and the citizen-soldier during the Boer War, 1899–1902
4. fragmenting communities: Patriotism, empire and the First World War
5. Educating the future citizens of empire: Working-class schooling c. 1870–1939
6. Transmitting the imperial message: Empire Day and the 1924 Wembley Exhibition
7. Mass entertainment, popular culture and imperial societies, 1870–1939
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Principal newspapers in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds c. 1800 to 1940'
Appendix 2: A sample of theatre, music hall and cinema entertainment in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds 1870–1939
Bibliography
Index
