Abstract
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
This collection is derived from the conference The British Empire and the Great War: Colonial Societies/Cultural Responses, which took place in Singapore in February 2014 to mark the centennial of the outbreak of the Great War. The meeting placed emphasis on a decentralisation of socio-cultural analysis away from the more predictable metropolitan perspectives, to enable an analysis of the contrasts and complexities of the various responses throughout the geographical and ethnic extremes of both the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ empire. From around the British imperial world, complex and interlocking themes were addressed examining how different strata and subsets of colonial society shaped and were shaped by the experience of total war and how disparate societies and cultures – in all their manifestations – shaped and were shaped by it.
William Blake
This collection is derived from the conference The British Empire and the Great War: Colonial Societies/Cultural Responses, which took place in Singapore in February 2014 to mark the centennial of the outbreak of the Great War. The meeting placed emphasis on a decentralisation of socio-cultural analysis away from the more predictable metropolitan perspectives, to enable an analysis of the contrasts and complexities of the various responses throughout the geographical and ethnic extremes of both the ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ empire. From around the British imperial world, complex and interlocking themes were addressed examining how different strata and subsets of colonial society shaped and were shaped by the experience of total war and how disparate societies and cultures – in all their manifestations – shaped and were shaped by it.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Great War and the British Empire |
Subtitle of host publication | Culture and Society |
Publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis |
Chapter | 1 |
Pages | 3-22 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317029830 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781472462275 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Nov 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Routledge Studies in First World War History |
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Publisher | Routledge |
Keywords
- the Great War
- British Empire
- Ireland
- Cyprus
- Australia
- Canada