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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... challenged West-centred paradigms of the imperial past and present. There has been more emphasis on how colonialism was shaped in struggle and the ways in which colonial discourse and imperial policies were deeply affected by the ...
... challenged the inequalities inherent in imperialist relations. Early and later empires were similar in that they were premised on military power and conquest of peoples to accrue wealth through a combination of trade, colonization ...
... with maritime and economic innovation. Hegemonic instability, however, resulted in a reordering and stabilizing of the international system and China was challenged by the aggressive Mediterranean trading states that were, in.
Barbara Bush. challenged by the aggressive Mediterranean trading states that were, in turn, displaced by Western Europe. A cycle of the rise of empires through concentration, decline through deconcentration, and reconcentration in new ...
... challenged. Archaeological evidence from Michigan, New England, Newfoundland and other sites suggests that North America was discovered and temporarily settled by Norse explorers as early as 1000 AD (Sale, 1990, pp. 69–71). Kamen (2002) ...
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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 | |