Author: William Chambers
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Chambers's Questions on British History and the British Constitution, with answers. [Extracted from “Chambers's Historical Questions” and “Chambers's Miscellaneous Questions.”]
Author: William Chambers
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Catalogue of the ... library. Division 1, health (Division 2, education).
Author: International health exhibition, 1884
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Catalogue of the Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
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The Absent-minded Imperialists
Author: Bernard Porter
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ISBN: 0199299595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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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 Porter, a leading imperial historian, argues that the empire had a far lower profile in Britain than it did abroad. Many Britons could hardly have been aware of it for most of the nineteenth century and only a small number was in any way committed to it. Between these extremes opinions differed widely over what was even meant by the empire. This depended largely on class, and even when people were aware of the empire, it had no appreciable impact on their thinking about anything else. Indeed, the influence far more often went the other way, with perceptions of the empire being affected (or distorted) by more powerful domestic discourses. Although Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society. As well as showing how this was possible, Porter also discusses the implications of this attitude for Britain and her empire, and for the relationship between culture and imperialism more generally, bringing his study up to date by including the case of the present-day USA.
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ISBN: 0199299595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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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 Porter, a leading imperial historian, argues that the empire had a far lower profile in Britain than it did abroad. Many Britons could hardly have been aware of it for most of the nineteenth century and only a small number was in any way committed to it. Between these extremes opinions differed widely over what was even meant by the empire. This depended largely on class, and even when people were aware of the empire, it had no appreciable impact on their thinking about anything else. Indeed, the influence far more often went the other way, with perceptions of the empire being affected (or distorted) by more powerful domestic discourses. Although Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society. As well as showing how this was possible, Porter also discusses the implications of this attitude for Britain and her empire, and for the relationship between culture and imperialism more generally, bringing his study up to date by including the case of the present-day USA.
Our Schools and Colleges, Containing the Principal Particulars Respecting Endowed Grammar Schools, Collegiate Schools, Proprietary Schools, Middle-class Schools, and Other Important Institutions, where the Young are Trained for the Naval, Military, Civil-service, Middle-class, and Similar Examinations, as Also Information Respecting Colleges and Universities
Author: Herbert Fry
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Languages : en
Pages : 296
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“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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A Dictionary of English Authors, Biographical and Bibliographical; Being a Compendious Account of the Lives and Writings of 700 British Writers from the Year 1400 to the Present Time
Author: Robert Farquharson Sharp
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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The Educator's Guide, Or, Handy Book
Author: Robert Henry Mair
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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A catalogue of modern works on science and technology. 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th-14th, 16th-19th, 22nd-25th, 35th, 39th, ed
Author: sir George Christopher T. Bartley
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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