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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... 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 Representation and the legitimization ...
... sexuality, the psychology of violence, the interplay of economics and culture and the dialectics of the colonial encounter, areas formerly neglected or marginalized in imperial histories, have provided a more nuanced understanding of ...
... sexuality, homosexuality, law, sport, the ecological impact, medicine and imperialism and the 'empire at home'. As a researcher and teacher of imperial history, however, I have become keenly aware of the need for a text of this nature ...
... sexual abuse; slaves in Roman law were defined as a 'speaking tool', subject to the will of their masters (Garnsey and Saller, 1987, pp. 71–3, 83). Slavery and other forms of unfree labour persisted well into the late nineteenth century ...
... sexuality', argued Michel Foucault, revitalized the type of political power exercised in the second half of the nineteenth century: Racism took shape at this point, racism in its modern 'biologising' statist form: it was then that the ...
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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 | |