Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge

by Bernard Porter

Book Overview

The notion of 'empire' has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter's landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in the years leading up to World War I. Imperial adventures, including the intervention in Egypt and the Anglo-Boer War, together with the jingoistic clamour that surrounded them, attracted powerful hostility as well as support. "Criticism of Empire" is the subject of Porter's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115074
• ISBN13: 9781845115074
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"