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      Nation and empire book

      Nation and empire

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      Nation and empire book

      ByJohn K. Walton
      BookDisraeli

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1990
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 10
      eBook ISBN 9780203129326
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      ABSTRACT

      Disraeli’s enduring reputation as an enthusiastic advocate of imperial expansion, and as

      one of the moving spirits behind the new imperialism of the late nineteenth and early

      twentieth centuries, rests mainly on two famous speeches in 1872, and on the policies and

      rhetoric of his ministry of 1874-80. The imperial aspect of the 1872 speeches, at

      Manchester on 3 April and at the Crystal Palace on 24 June, has attracted much more

      attention from historians and propagandists after the event than it did from the media at

      the time. Disraeli asserted a need, in the changing circumstances of Europe and the wider

      world, for more attention to be paid to an active foreign policy. Within this framework,

      he urged the importance of colonies and overseas possessions in making it both necessary

      and possible for Britain to play a conspicuous and leading role on the stage of world

      diplomacy. He emphasized the popularity of empire among the working classes, and he

      urged that the relationship between Britain and the English-speaking colonies should be

      placed on a firmer and better defined footing. His peroration at Manchester associated

      ‘the people’ and ‘the Empire’ in a windy but effective passage of rhetoric:

      it is not merely our fleets and armies, our powerful artillery, our

      accumulated capital, and our unlimited credit upon which I so depend, as

      upon that unbroken spirit of her people, which, I believe, was never

      prouder of the Imperial country to which they belong.

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