During the last 30 years of the 19th century the British Empire increased enormously and by 1900 the Empire covered a fifth of the world's land surface. In Britain itself, the growth of Empire came to the centre of the political debate and was applauded by a large sympathetic press. Two sides of imperialism had emerged - the acquisition of territory and a campaign of propaganda to make imperialism "popular". Both are the subject of this book. "The Language of Empire" decribes how the Empire was constructed, given shape and meaning, for its contemporaries. The author explores how the imperial "story" was imagined and how the day to day activities of its participants were understood. He focuses on both the face of Empire as it was presented to the public, and on the lives of individual imperial soldiers or adventurers, exploring how the idea of Empire gave meaning to the actions of its participants. The author defines the role of discourse in determining this perception of reality - looking at the construction of Empire through the high body of popular texts ranging from fiction, poetry and children's stories to history and biography.
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