Imperialism and Popular Culture / Edition 1

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Overview

Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. When they were being entertained or educated the British basked in their imperial glory and developed a powerful notion of their own superiority. This book examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late Victorian and Edwardian times--in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education, and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond the first world war when the most popular media, cinema and broadcasting, continued to convey an essentially late nineteenth-century world view, while government agencies like the Empire Marketing Board sought to convince the public of the economic value of empire. Youth organizations, which had propagated imperialist and militarist attitudes before the war, struggled to adapt to the new internationalist climate.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780719018688
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publication date: 10/15/1989
  • Series: Studies in Imperialism Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 1,226,504
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.57 (d)

Meet the Author

John M. Mackenzie is Professor of Imperial History at the University of Lancaster.

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Table of Contents

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List of contributors
1 Introduction 1
2 Patriotism and Empire: Music-Hall entertainment, 1870-1914 17
3 'Up Guards and At them!': British imperialism and popular art, 1880-1914 49
4 Of England, Home, and duty: the image of England in Victorian and Edwardian juvenile fiction 73
5 Showbiz imperialism: the Case of Peter Lobengula 94
6 'The grit of our forefathers': invented traditions, propaganda and imperialism 113
7 Boy's Own Empire: feature films and imperialism in the 1930s 140
8 'In touch with the infinite': the BBC and the Empire, 1923-53 165
9 'Bringing the Empire alive': the Empire Marketing Board and imperial propaganda, 1926-33 192
10 Citizens of the Empire: Baden-Powell, Scouts and Guides, and an imperial ideal 232
Index 257
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