Author: Anne RODWELL
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Child's first step to English History
Author: Anne RODWELL
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The child's first step to Scottish history
Author: Anne Rodwell
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Rodwell's Child's first step to the history of England. With continuation by J. Corner
Author: Anne Rodwell
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
The Absent-Minded Imperialists
Author: Bernard Porter
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191513415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
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.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191513415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
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.
The Child and His Book
Author: Louise Frances Story Field
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Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Children's literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Catalogue of the educational division of the South Kensington museum
Author: Victoria and Albert museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Catalogue of the Educational Division of the South Kensington Museum
Author: South Kensington Museum
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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