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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... argued for a return to world history and study of global interconnections after the postmodernist 'abrasure' of the link between human experience and political economy (Bayly, 2004, p. 38). Globalization in the context of world history ...
... argued that long-term economic growth, based on cycles of innovation, peace and stability maintained through a strong hegemony, has had a continuous history since the tenth century. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Sung ...
... argued that: The two pillars of Western civilisation: Classicism and Christianity shared a triumphalist image. Each invented 'Otherness' to define itself and the process of maintaining boundaries [racial, class], required the perennial ...
... argued the anti-imperialist Leonard Woolf, were 'intimately connected with the phenomenon of imperialism' (Woolf, 1928, p. 19). The 'romantic racial nationalism' (Horsman, 1981) that emerged in the USA, Germany and Britain in the later ...
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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 | |