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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... superiority of Western civilization. Untangling the relationship between economic growth, capitalism and imperialism is particularly challenging in relation to the history of the USA. When colonists launched the first anti-imperial ...
... superiority. Whereas citizenship was the basis of the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire was justified by the fact that the king was the earthly representative of the great god Ahura Mazda, who ensured the happiness of all humanity and to ...
... superiority? Economic exploitation A common theme in imperial expansion is the economic exploitation of the colonized, whether through tribute, taxes, expropriation of land, control of trade and production or a combination of some, or ...
... superiority A belief in the irreconcilable difference or 'otherness' of subordinated peoples is also a continuous feature of empires and essential to the superior identities of the powerful. Davies, Nandy and Sardar have argued that ...
... superiority legitimized conquest and enslavement and confirmed Europeans' perceptions of themselves as 'Lords of All the World' (Pagden, 1995). Indigenous inhabitants were increasingly racialized as inferior 'others' in travellers ...
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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 | |