11-attitudes Towards Imperialism✔️

Question 1

Hobson

Answer 1

-was a critic of the British empire
-1902 he authored ‘imperialism’ in which he called the boer war a ‘capatalist plot’ by mine owners
-argued the empire benefited wealthy elites at the expense of the working class
-his views provoked debate and fed into socialist anti-imperialism
-believed that imperial expansion had been driven by a search for new markets for the rich capitalists of britan

Question 2

Military embarrassment of the boer war

Answer 2

-britan struggled to defeat a small population of boers
- Boers had 47,000 troops, britan had 347,000
-1/3 of British army recruits were unfit due to malnutrition
-1906 free school meals introduced
-1902 education act aimed to improve schools and open more secdonary schools
-these polices seemed quite basic- suprising they weren’t already in place
-shows that britan wasn’t focusing on its own country

Question 3

National efficiency movement

Answer 3

-concern that nation needed to be healthier and better educated
-1902 journalists and political commentators refferd to britan as a nation of amateurs and that leadership needed to be stronger
-without national efficiency, the country would be eclipsed by growing powers. Eg Germany

Question 4

Measures taken to improve national efficiency

Answer 4

-1902 education act- led to opening of 1000 secondary schools over following decade
-a new centre of technological, medical and scientific excellence was established in London 1906- ‘imperial college’

Question 5

Popular culture

Answer 5

-the spread of education, literacy and political involvement created an audience for the imperial message

Question 6

Popular press

Answer 6

-bewteeen 1890-1914 it was something of a golden age for newspaper publications advances in printing and the emergence of the professional journalist
-daily mail set up in 1896
-it was targeted to the lower middle class at an affordable price- it was pro imperialism

Question 7

Empire in schools

Answer 7

-history and geography glorified British activity in the empire
-empire day saw children salute to the British flag and hear of the greats of the British empire like Cecil Rhodes
-culterally, the British empire was viewed as generally positive

Question 8

Imperial leather soap brand

Answer 8

-showed how imperialism filtered in the British psyche at the time

Question 9

King George V’s coronation

Answer 9

-his coronation in 1921 was accompanied by a festival of the empire
-was an exhibition of the empires culture and trade