Article: The Empire too, what does it mean to you?(Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World)(Book review)

Article: What did they know of Empire? Bernard Porter ...
History Today;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... adventure stories, even nude paintings (Empire as rape), were all essentially imperialist ... Victorians must have been thinking about their Empire even when they did not talk or write about ... to be the assumption behind this; the Empire was so vast and great and vital to them ...

Article: We don't do empire: Bernard Porter is ...
History Today;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... denial of it--'We don't do empire', in the words of Donald ... would feel comfortable with. 'Empire' is a European thing. The ... condemning other people's empires: the British (obviously ... explicitly. 'If we were a true empire,' said Vice-President Dick ...

Article: Critics of Empire: Bernard Porter says that ...
History Today;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... idea that what lay behind the European empire-building of Hobson's own time was ... gave a lot of thought to the question of Empire. MacDonald too recognized the genuineness ... often the excuse of imperialism ... Empire follows the course of gold reefs [read ...

Article: 9/11 ... 1910: Bernard Porter points out ...
History Today;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... aircraft), that could put disproportionate power in the hands of small numbers of evil-doers, and render even the greatest empire vulnerable to disastrous attack. In Britain's case the Royal Navy in particular, her main line of national defence, was ...

Article: The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and ...
The Historian;  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain. By Bernard Porter. (Oxford: Oxford ... perverse for a historian of empire as serious as the author ... the "discourse" of empire penetrated into every ... roughly 1830 to 1940. Bernard Porter finds this claim ...

Article: Empire? What empire? Noel Malcolm praises a book ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... wrote (in 1883) that the Empire seemed to have been acquired ... of his day, in which the Empire was hardly discussed at all. Bernard Porter, Emeritus Professor of History ... really thought about their Empire. And to anyone brought up ...

Article: Embedded empire.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
History Today;  November 1, 2004 ;     545 words ... ... What a remarkable article by Bernard Porter (October 2004)! So interest in Empire was 'thinly spread' and ... of investment went to the Empire in the late 1880s? If this ... formed in 1887 to propagandise empire, ensured more widespread ...