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Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its imperial implications, the sixth edition of The Lions Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present.

Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this book presents a broad narrative of events and explores a number of general themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations of British imperialism, as well as the simplistic for and against arguments put forward in todays history wars. Bernard Porter sees imperialism as a symptom not of Britains strength in the world, but of her decline, and he argues that the empire itself both aggravated and obscured deep-seated malaise in the British economy. This sixth edition includes a final epilogue that engages with what Brexit means for British Imperial History, and whether it represents an extension of or final conclusion to Britains Imperial Career. In so doing, the book offers readers a thorough understanding of the history of British imperialism and its heritage, extending right into the present day.

Supported by maps, images and an updated chronology, The Lions Share is the perfect resource for both students and those interested in British and Imperial History from the Victorian era to the modern day.

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This reviewer found it one of the most captivating pieces he had read for a long time: his book abounds in wit, is studded with brief but telling phrases, and reveals an unerring eye for the relevant fact and apposite quotation.

Paul Kennedy, Historical Journal

Personal preferences aside, Bernard Porters study remains a wonderfully illuminating, eminently entertaining survey, rich in revealing insights and vivid quotations, from which readers will continue to gain enormous pleasure and enlightenment.

Peter Burroughs, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

A most valuable key to modern British colonial history. From this gripping and lucid exposition, we may gather an understanding not only of the initial intricacies of colonial problems but of their alarming legacies.

Gerard Douds, History Today

Porter provides the best synoptic view yet presented of the empire since the coming of the New Imperialism The Lions Share is not least a triumph in scholarly organisation, which develops its main narrative around sensible, big themes which the reader can grasp while following the author through what is really a complex and assured global tour of assessment.

Deryck Schreuder, Historical Studies

Clear and readily comprehensible Imperial history is emotive history at present and the depth of feeling of most authors often precludes objectivity. Of such prejudices this book is almost wholly free All in all, therefore, the book may be counted a distinct success. It is both easy and enjoyable to read.

Paul M. Hayes, Times Higher Education Supplement

This study is still the best short study of its subject Some will doubtless treat it as a textbook: and it is indeed full of accurate information, telling phrases and aptly-deployed quotations, all presented in a very lively and readable manner. In fact, it is a clear, coherent and well-substantiated interpretation.

Iain R. Smith, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

En kort anmlan kan omjligen redovisa Porters mnga stimulerande frgestllnungar och infallsvinklar. Hans bok redovisar en imponderande belsenhet. Och den r briljant skriven.

[A short review cannot do justice to the many stimulating questions and perspectives Porter provides here. The book reveals him to be impressively well-read. And it is brilliantly written.]

W. M. Carlgren, Head Archivist at Swedish Foreign Office

Glimrende. [Glittering, brilliant.]

Nyt Fra Historien

Other books by Bernard Porter

Critics of Empire (1968, 2008)

The Refugee Question in Mid-Victorian Politics (1979)

Britain, Europe and the World (1983, 1987)

The Origins of the Vigilant State (1987)

Plots and Paranoia (1989, 1992)

Britannias Burden (1994)

The Absent-Minded Imperialists (2004, 2006)

Empire and Superempire (2006)

The Battle of the Styles (2011)

THE LIONS SHARE

A History of British Imperialism 1850 to the present

Bernard Porter

First published 1975 by Pearson Education Limited

First edition published in 1975

Second edition published 1984

Third edition published 1996

Fourth edition published 2004

Fifth edition published in 2012

Published 2013 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-1-4082-8605-0 (pbk)

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Porter, Bernard.

The Lions share : a history of British imperialism, 1850 to the present / Bernard Porter. -- 5th ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4082-8605-0 (pbk.)

1. Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century. 2. Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century. 3. Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century. 4. Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901. 5. Great Britain--Colonies--History--21st century. 6. Great Britain--Foreign relations--21st century. I. Title.

DA16.P67 2012

909.0971241-dc23

2012002312

Set by 35 in 11.25/13pt StonePrint

Dedicated to those or their memory who set me on the path to becoming a historian and a scholar in my early years:

Cyril Porter; W. R. Powell;

Alan Mould; Peter Watkins; W. E. Spud Barron;

John Roach; R. E. Robbie Robinson

Contents

Maps

Map 1 The British empire circa 1850

Map 2 The British empire circa 1922

Plates

In central plate section.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

from Brown, J. and Louis, W. R., The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV (Oxford University Press, 1999).

In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, in particular with regard to , and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.

This book is about the phenomenon of British imperialism (not just the British empire) in the later nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: what it was, how it arose, why it fell, how it worked, what its repercussions and legacies were and are, and a number of other issues relating to it. It is a complex and fascinating story more so than some simplistic popular reductions of it would have one think. It is also a continuously topical one, in view of the empires impact, still, on the world and on Britain, and of imperialisms revival if we are to believe some modern commentators in very recent years. The final chapters will be about this.

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