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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... emergence of the 'new racism' herald the era of the 'new' New Imperialism (Furedi, 1995; Balibar, 1991)? These developments opened up new debates about the relationship between globalization and imperialism which will be examined in.
... racism is a contentious concept. Indeed, the term 'racism' only came into usage in the 1930s and may not be an appropriate concept to apply to earlier epochs. Where do racial ideologies originate? Fryer (1986) dates this from the late ...
... racism, argues George Frederickson (2002), awaited the rise of modernity and its secular, rational justifications that legitimized Western imperialism. Racism was a product of the Enlightenment, applying the principle of biological ...
... Racism took shape at this point, racism in its modern 'biologising' statist form: it was then that the whole policies of settlement, family, marriage, education, social heirarchization ... property [and] health ... received ... their ...
... racism in Britain pre1914 and in the USA and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s (Black, 2004; Stepan, 1982). More widely, Anglo-Saxonism and its assumptions of cultural and racial superiority shaped Western racism and became ...
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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 | |