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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... change Case study 3 Culture and imperialism in British Africa Chapter 5 Representing empire Representing empire: dominant discourses Representation and the legitimization of imperial power Constructing the colonial/Orientalized.
... dominant focus in the historiography since the 1980s, within broader political and economic developments outlined in Chapter 1. Economic history has been marginalized in the cultural 'turn', yet there are many fine studies that need to ...
... dominance, began in the 1740s. Britain's natural resources, combined with social fluidity, stimulated industrialization that heralded the 'second age of discovery' of Australia and New Zealand and expansion in India (Osterhammel, 1997 ...
... dominance and concepts of British liberty were bound together and English radicalism and anti-slavery were shaped by arguments against imperial tyranny (Colley, 1992b; Wilson, 1998). Was this the emergence of the first modern empire ...
... dominant ideologies. As the interests of dominant groups change, so do the ideological frameworks and discourses of power that define the nature of imperialism. Understanding these changes and the links between economic, cultural ...
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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 | |