Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians.

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project.

Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.

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Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians.

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project.

Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.

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Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939

Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939

by Brad Beaven
Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939

Visions of empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939

by Brad Beaven

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The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians.

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project.

Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719078569
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 11/01/2012
Series: Studies in Imperialism , #99
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Brad Beaven is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth

Table of Contents

List of illustrations ix

List of tables x

Acknowledgements xi

General editor's introduction xii

Introduction 1

1 Cities in context: civic culture, 'New Journalism' and the creation of localised imperial identities, 1870-1939 12

2 The city and the imperial mission, 1850-1914 42

3 Civic ceremony and the citizen-soldier during, the Boer War, 1899-1902 70

4 Fragmenting communities: patriotism, empire and the First World War 92

5 Educating the future citizens of empire: working-class schooling, 1870-1939 125

6 Transmitting the imperial message: Empire Day and the 1924 Wembley Exhibition 150

7 Mass entertainment, popular culture and imperial societies, 1870-1939 179

Conclusion 208

Appendix 1 Principal newspapers in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds, c. 1800-1940 211

Appendix 2 A sample of theatre, music hall and cinema entertainment in Portsmouth, Coventry and Leeds, 1870-1939 212

References 219

Index 231

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