Visions of empire : patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939
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Bibliographic Information
Visions of empire : patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press , Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- hardback
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. -- .
Table of Contents
General 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 -- .
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