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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... Britain, where Barbara faithfully records the debates and the contests, seems to be an area wherein a rather large gap has opened up between cultural historians and those who write in a more traditional vein; a gap that the next ...
... Britain in the early nineteenth century in relation to hostile French ambitions and gained greater currency after 1850, but it was the emergence of anti-imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century that strengthened the negative ...
... Britain's 'First Empire' (Armitage, 2001). The move from Empire to Commonwealth from the late 1930s onwards can be interpreted as a strategy of the British establishment to hold on to power in the face of mounting colonial resistance ...
... Britain demonstrate how theories and concepts help to illuminate different facets of imperialism in practice. The focus embraces resistance and imperial power as these two facets of imperial history are implicitly linked (Bush, 1999) ...
... Britain's natural resources, combined with social fluidity, stimulated industrialization that heralded the 'second age of discovery' of Australia and New Zealand and expansion in India (Osterhammel, 1997, p. 30). Britain defeated France ...
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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 | |