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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4676
- isbn: 9782869062092
- eisbn: 9782869064775
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Trevor Harris, « Britannia super omnes: Race theory and The Imperial Sentiment in Victorian Britain », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4676
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The tensions and contradictions in the Jekyll-and-Hyde society of Victorian Britain, are clear evidence of, as well as an alibi for, the triumph of inequality: that durable imposition of a specifically British, liberal state. If liberal, indeed Whig, history was that state’s apology and a Victorian keynote, evolutionism became the socioeconomic extension of that historical justification. Its typical mode of thought was social Darwinism. Bowdlerized science “explained” the “progress” of Victorian Britain towards world domination. Insights from developments in biology or physiology, conclusions as to function and structure in the organic world were mapped, first, onto social function and structure, then onto geopolitical function and structure. Britannia magna, “Greater Britain” or the “expansion of England” became less the expression of the Empire-nation than of the manifest destiny of an imperial race...