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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... emphasized, is intimately linked to culture and politics. The socio-psychological significance of empire to national identities and cultures should also not be underestimated, a point on which Hobson had some illuminating insights ...
... emphasized the benefits the Belgians brought to the 'natives'. Justificatory ideologies of later European empires were influenced by the secular discourse of rights and democracy associated with the Enlightenment (Chapter 3). Both ...
... emphasizing more similarities between the British and American empires than between Washington and Rome (Colley, 2002c, pp. 4–5). But the predominant image of a benevolent British imperialism has concealed some darker moments and human ...
... emphasized, racism was not an 'incidental detail' of colonialism (the practical workings of imperialism) but a 'consubstantial part' – the 'highest expression of the colonial system' and the basis of the 'fundamental discrimination ...
... emphasized the greatness of Teutonic peoples, Germans, Norsemen and Anglo-Saxons, including the English, who had colonized the world and were superior to other races, including Celts and 'inferior' Southern and Eastern European peoples ...
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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 | |