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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... historiography Defining colonialism and imperialism Untangling concepts and theories The postcolonial challenge and its critics Case study 1 Conceptualizing imperialism: the case of Ireland Chapter 3 Imperialism and modernity Modernity ...
... historiographical developments within key fields of contemporary historical practice. Each volume is open to the idea of history as a historicist cultural discourse constituted by historians as much as it is reconstructed from the ...
... history has opened up fertile new research into these aspects of imperial history that were previously marginalized in the historiography. Studies influenced by postcolonial theory have challenged West-centred paradigms of the imperial ...
... historiography of imperialism and theoretical and conceptual developments stimulated by postcolonial theory. The ... historiography since the 1980s, within broader political and economic developments outlined in Chapter 1. Economic ...
... historiography. From the 1960s to the 1980s, change and continuity in imperialism were at the heart of debates centred on the New Imperialism, circa 1870–1914. Historians who stressed continuity did not go back much further than 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 | |