The Absent-Minded Imperialists —— Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain

----- 心不在焉的帝国主义者：英帝国、社会与文化

ISBN: 9780199299591 出版年：2011 页码：498 Porter, Bernard Oxford University Press

Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many were hardly aware of it at all. This lively book is the first study of the impact of the empire on British society and culture that looks beneath the surface to find out what people really thought, with some surprising results.