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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... identities of minorities (including AfricanAmericans) be fully interrogated without reference to the migrations, forced and voluntary, that sustained the changing labour needs of empires and created global diasporas? As Patrick Wolfe ...
... identities were contrasted with inferior barbaric 'others' of the autocratic Persian Empire. Partly motivated by revenge, between 336 and his death in 323 BC, Alexander the Great defeated the Persians and incorporated their empire into ...
... identities and cultures should also not be underestimated, a point on which Hobson had some illuminating insights, developed further by Mackenzie (1984) in his study of the 'mass psychology' of imperialism. Whatever the most plausible ...
... identities of the powerful. Davies, Nandy and Sardar have argued that: The two pillars of Western civilisation: Classicism and Christianity shared a triumphalist image. Each invented 'Otherness' to define itself and the process of ...
... identities and has contributed to continuing inequalities stemming from superior 'whiteness' (Bonnett, 2000). Crucial to these developments was the elaboration of racial theory in the nineteenth century, when the concept of Aryanism ...
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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 | |