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From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes by Tobias Harper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Tobias Harper

Current price: $88.00
From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes by Tobias Harper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes by Tobias Harper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes by Tobias Harper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Tobias Harper

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In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, orCBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and howdid the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it?This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidstdemocratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest - and most important - components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to itin diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies. | From Servants Of The Empire To Everyday Heroes by Tobias Harper, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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