Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868

by Edward Beasley

Book Overview

Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earliest members of the first major pro-imperial pressure group:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138882275
• ISBN13: 9781138882270
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"