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 33–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... ethnicity is a perennial dilemma ... (Lieven, 2002, p. xiv) Yet this focus on 'Great Powers', whether acknowledging empire or not, obscures the importance of transnational structures of global power established through capitalism ...
... ethnic diasporas and laid the foundations for postcolonial ethnic conflicts in many parts of the nonWestern world (Chua, 2003). Cultural and racial superiority A belief in the irreconcilable difference or 'otherness' of subordinated ...
... associated with human bondage were transferred to scores of African ethnic groups that Arabs and Europeans perceived as a single race. (Brion Davis, 1999) Images of blackness constructed through discourse, literature and art, go.
... ethnic, religious and class conflicts. No successful empires could have survived after conquest without sophisticated technologies of colonial governance that facilitated smooth administration with the minimum physical force and ...
Դուք հասել եք այս գրքի դիտումների առավելագույն քանակին.
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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 | |