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 81–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... modern colonialism: gender, race and sexuality Colonizer and colonized: power, resistance and cultural change Case study 3 Culture and imperialism in British Africa Chapter 5 Representing empire Representing empire: dominant discourses ...
... modern times and to reflect changes in awareness and interest both in the West and in the formerly colonised nations. What is perhaps needed now, as Barbara indicates, is more fertile interaction between the old and the new. In Chapter ...
... modern nationstate. Is this applicable to 'powers' which created empires before the modern age? Lieven defines an empire as ... a great power that has left its mark on the international relations of the era ... a polity that rules over ...
... modern Europe and its ... determination to break out of the confines of the familiar, to make known the unknown, to defy the constraints of nature and conquer all that was conquerable. (Sale, 1990, p. 201) Thus began the mythologizing ...
... modern, have all waxed and waned but, as Alcock (2002) points out, old empires never entirely die but have an afterlife through 'emulation and ... rejection ... of the mores of one empire by another' (p. 370). Thus 'empires of nostalgia ...
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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 | |