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Informationen zum Autor Brad Beaven is a Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of Portsmouth. Klappentext This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. Zusammenfassung This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General Editor's introductionIntroduction 1. Cities in context: Civic culture, new journalism and the creation of local and imperial identities, 1870-19392. The city and the imperial mission 1850-19143. Civic ceremony and the citizen-soldier during the Boer War, 1899-19024. fragmenting communities: Patriotism, empire and the First World War5. Educating the future citizens of empire: Working-class schooling c. 1870-19396. Transmitting the imperial message: Empire Day and the 1924 Wembley Exhibition 7. Mass entertainment, popular culture and imperial societies, 1870-1939ConclusionAppendix 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 1870-1939BibliographyIndex
