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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... India: 'Blowing up the Cashmere Gate' (the siege of Lucknow, 1857) from Rev. C. S. Dawe, King Edward's Realm: The ... Indian' from Huamán Poma, Letter to a King: A PictureHistory of the Inca Civilisation by Huamán Poma (Don Felipe Huamán ...
... India. In central and South America the Spanish conquistadores encountered the extensive Inca and Aztec empires. Eventually, with varying degrees of damage and over different time-spans, all these empires declined and succumbed to ...
... India and the Chinese court by the third century, initiating the first travel writings (ibid.). The Roman Empire (c. 55 BC to AD 410) established important principles of imperial rule that echoed down to the later nineteenth-century ...
... India (1529–1757) was founded by descendants of Genghis Khan, who had assimilated the Islamic culture and religion of the Middle East but retained military skills and other cultural facets that reflected their Far Eastern origins. A ...
... India (Osterhammel, 1997, p. 30). Britain defeated France and Spain in the Seven Years' War (1756–63), the first global war extending to European colonies in the New World and India. The French Empire was further undermined by the.
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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 | |