The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster [Paperback]

This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924. Besides focusing on the usual Victorian and Edwardian novelists and poets, surveys of popular culture and anti-empire views are also included. By adopting a longer chronological context, the high level of continuity in beliefs and actions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is highlighted. As a result, the period is viewed as a dramatic episode in a much longer story.

Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
List of Plates
Introduction
The Revival of the Imperial Spirit
The Imperial Adventure By Jingo!
The Imperial Idea
The White Man's Burden
A Question of Race?
'Too Late'
Chronological Table
A Guide to Reading
Index