The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence. But the ascendancy did not last, and a century and a half later Britain is forced to acknowledge her relative decline in many if not most spheres. Bernard Porter's history of the period traces the origins of most of the problems that confront the country today back precisely to that "golden age" of the 1850s and 1860s, dismissing fashionable views that attribute decline to the abandonment of "Victorian values". He analyzes the artificiality of the conditions that in the 1850s and 1860s underpinned expansion, prosperity and...
The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence. But the ascendancy did not last, and a century and a half later Britain is force...
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. Long regarded as the classic account, the author has now added a substantial new Introduction. He demonstrates the power and influence of major critics such as J.A. Hobson -- the acknowledged creator of the ""capitalist theory"" of imperialism -- E.D. Morel and Mary Kingsley and of organizations...
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 t...
The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for political refugees, but never with more justification than in the nineteenth century, when the legal toleration which was accorded them in Britain was nearly absolute. Not only were fugitives of all political complexions allowed into Britain, but there was for most of the century no possible way - no law on the statute book - by which they could be kept out. This, and the licence which was allowed them to agitate and conspire were greatly resented by the governments from which they had fled, and regretted only a little less by...
The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for political refugees, but never with more justification than in the nineteenth century, w...
Britain s secret state exists to protect her from enemies within . It has always aroused controversy; on the one hand it is credited with preventing wars, revolutions and terrorism and on the other it is accused of subverting democratically elected governments and luring innocents to death. What is the true story? The book, first published in 1992, delves beneath the myths and deceptions surrounding the secret service to reveal the true nature and significance of covert political policing in Britain, from the spies and bloodites of the eighteenth century to today s MI5. This title will be...
Britain s secret state exists to protect her from enemies within . It has always aroused controversy; on the one hand it is credited with preventin...