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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... imperial centre and colonial periphery. This given, imperialism also generated dynamic cultural change and resistance that challenged the inequalities inherent in imperialist relations. Early and later empires were similar in that they ...
... imperial superpower of the nineteenth century, a position retained up to the outbreak of the Second World War (see Map 4, p. xxi). The war, however, heralded a revival of pro-imperialist sentiment but also increasingly fierce ...
... imperial oppression? A more conventional imperialist rhetoric emerged in the 1890s as the USA joined the 'new' imperialist competition. The Civil War, 1861–65, was a traumatic hiatus but also stimulated the industrialization of the ...
... imperialist Leonard Woolf, were 'intimately connected with the phenomenon of imperialism' (Woolf, 1928, p. 19). The 'romantic racial nationalism' (Horsman, 1981) that emerged in the USA, Germany and Britain in the later nineteenth ...
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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 | |