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 52–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... civilizations of antiquity such as Old Babylonia (1800 BC), which bequeathed mathematics, science and the written word to future Middle Eastern and European cultures. The Greek Empire (c. 750–550 BC) created colonies around the Eastern ...
... civilization and the world unknown to Europeans was there to be conquered. The concept of 'discovery' of the Americas assumed a 'new world' of 'virgin' territory for Europeans to freely colonize. This has now been challenged ...
... civilization. Untangling the relationship between economic growth, capitalism and imperialism is particularly challenging in relation to the history of the USA. When colonists launched the first anti-imperial struggle of the modern era ...
... Civilization/superior religion was pitted against barbarism/paganism, order against disorder that threatened the civilized world, and the spread of a superior civilization provided a common justification of empires. The 'vernacular ...
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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 | |