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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


The true Imperialism was a flexible and considerate policy of guidance, of ...

The true Imperialism was a flexible and considerate policy of guidance, of justice between natives and settlers, of reconciliation, emancipation, and training for self-government.

Martin Tupper claimed to have thought of it first. This Disraelian Imperialism of ascendancy in Europe was an episode of no lasting importance.

For the popular view of Disraeli as 'founder of modern Imperialism' I can see little evidence. In any case, these things are not 'founded they come about.

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But the first man to state the new ideas clearly was Disraeli. ...

But the first man to state the new ideas clearly was Disraeli.

Just twenty years later the Oxford Dictionary wrote: 'In recent British politics Imperialism means the

The purification of that service from the time of Clive onwards; its ...

The purification of that service from

the time of

Clive onwards; its arrogant detachment from native life; its self-devotion and efficiency; its close asso

The material framework of the Peninsula, its language, its communications, its administrative ...

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