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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Արդյունքներ 89–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... Western representations of non-Western societies Case study 4 Representing empire in British culture Chapter 6 Postcolonial perspectives: imperialism or globalization? A post-imperial world? Capitalism, imperialism and globalization ...
... Western and Eastern empires circa AD 284–305 from George Willis Botsford, A History of Rome (New York, London, The Macmillan Company, 1909) Map 2 'Persian Empire at its greatest extent, 525 BC' from Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, A History ...
... Western intellectuals are more likely to see empire in a negative perspective than a British imperial historian whose past family prosperity derived from the Empire. A Marxist historian like Eric Hobsbawm will adopt a different ...
... Western Europe. A cycle of the rise of empires through concentration, decline through deconcentration, and reconcentration in new imperial centres thus began (W. R. Thompson, 2000, pp. 13–14). Such studies raise important questions ...
... Western Europe was initially not strong enough to take on the powerful Chinese, Mughal and Ottoman empires. But the Renaissance instilled new vigour into Western European society and economy. The reconquista, the expulsion of Islamic ...
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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 | |