Imperialism and PostcolonialismRoutledge, 22 մյս, 2014 թ. - 304 էջ This account of imperialism explores recent intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history, including interdisciplinary and post-colonial perspectives. Exploring the links between empire and domestic history, it looks at the interconnections and comparisons between empire and imperial power within wider developments in world history, covering the period from the Roman to the present American empire. The book begins by examining the nature of empire, then looks at continuity and change in the historiography of imperialism and theoretical and conceptual developments. It covers themes such as the relationship between imperialism and modernity, culture and national identity in Britain. Suitable for undergraduates taking courses in imperial and colonial history. |
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... African migrants facing racial exclusion in London or Paris have a different, and more painful, relationship to the imperial past than white Europeans. Non-Western intellectuals are more likely to see empire in a negative perspective ...
... African and American 'others', and not the other way round (Brown, 1963)? Is it this 'uniqueness' which helps to explain how Europe and then the West came to dominate the rest of the world? Three broad arguments can be forwarded in ...
... African slave trade and slave labour contributed significantly to the building of the Americas and created the African diaspora (Blackburn, 1997; Conniff and Davis (eds), 1994; Andrews, 2004). This expansion of colonial trade and ...
... Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas. Race superiority and imperial power became indivisible but how this ... African ethnic groups that Arabs and Europeans perceived as a single race. (Brion Davis, 1999) Images of blackness ...
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theories concepts and historiography | |
the case of Ireland | |
Imperialism and modernity | |
modernity imperialism and antiWesternism | |
Culture and imperialism | |
Case study 3 Culture and imperialism in British Africa | |
Case study 4 Representing empire in British culture | |
Recommended reading | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |