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Little Englanders
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Pejorative phrase of the 1890s for those who disliked the policies of imperial expansion which were then being robustly advocated by men such as Cecil *Rhodes. The phrase was given prominence (and may even have been coined) by Joseph *Chamberlain in a speech of July 1895.
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