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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... colonialism was shaped in struggle and the ways in which colonial discourse and imperial policies were deeply affected by the actions of the colonized (Stoler and Cooper (eds), 1997, p. ix). Finally, new perspectives on race, class ...
... discourse of rights and democracy associated with the Enlightenment (Chapter 3). Both Britain and France claimed humanitarian reasons, the eradication of slavery and barbaric cruelties, as a rationale for the colonization of Africa. A ...
... imperialism thus created the racialized 'others' of colonial possessions in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas. Race superiority and imperial power became indivisible but how this relationship ... discourse, literature and art, go.
... colonial writer, Albert Memmi, emphasized, racism was not an 'incidental detail' of ... colonial system' and the basis of the 'fundamental discrimination' between colonizer and colonized (Memmi, 1957, p. 140). Imperial race discourse ...
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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 | |