Attitudes towards imperialism
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- Benjamin Disraeli
- Conservative party leader and short lived prime minister in 1868
- Served a full second term between 1874 and 1880
- Gave Queen Victoria 'Empress on India' title
- Was knighted earl of Beconsfield
- William Gladstone
- Served as PM and exchequer of 4 different occasions
- Attended Oxford university and elected into parliment in 1832
- Served as Colonial secretary in the conservative government
- Became leader of newly found liberal party
- The British public
- Media fueled the publics interest in the Empire
- Literature, poems, lecture and songs kept the public entertained
- Imperial exhibitions were set up as museums where 'savages' where put on display
- Charles Darwins 'survival of the fittest' made the actions of the empire justified
- Benjamin Disraeli
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