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The Nation and the Empire

The Nation and the Empire - The Ideals of Empire : Political and Economic Thought, 1903-1913 / Edited and Introduced by Ewen Green

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Publisher's Synopsis

This set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Dubbed Idealists of Empire, they saw that the British Empire seemed to have no governing principles, no structure and no guiding ideals. Sir John Seeley's famous quote of 1883 sums up this view: 'we seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind'. The mission of the idealists was to find an Imperial solution to this problem.
The idealists of Empire documented their findings as they looked more systematically at the Empire's external challenges and internal workings, in terms of politics, economics and strategy. The texts published in this collection represent their most important contributions to the early twentieth-century debate on the fate of the Empire.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415194679
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 325.34109041
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 515
Weight: 5050g
Height: 218mm
Width: 136mm
Spine width: 44mm