Borderlands: The British Empire and the Negotiation of Englishness, 1864-1914
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2014

In the late nineteenth century, Britain reigned supreme among the European powers, with an imperial reach into almost every corner of the globe.Britons living in the metropole imagined their empire as at once very distant and very close to home.It was, of course, distant physically but also in the sense that the people who lived in places such as Africa and India were viewed by Britons as very different from themselves.However, the idea of empire was also very immediate for Britons because it wa