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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... social, and cultural perspectives – requires special resources not only of intelligence but of optimism and energy also. Such works are always open to attack from the specialists who claim that their own field has been misrepresented or ...
... social theorizing, the rise of concerns with narrative, representation and the linguistic turn, and a self-conscious engagement with the issues of relativism, objectivity and truth. All these are reflected in the appearance of new ...
... social, cultural and political relations of power between the empire and its subordinated periphery. 'Imperialism', then, is a subjective term that is ideologically loaded and conveys a range of conflicting meanings. The term was first ...
... social scientists, and literary and cultural theorists, the scope is interdisciplinary. I am also concerned with continuities between the colonial and 'postcolonial'. The word 'empire' stretches back 2,000 years to the Latin imperium ...
... social fluidity, stimulated industrialization that heralded the 'second age of discovery' of Australia and New Zealand and expansion in India (Osterhammel, 1997, p. 30). Britain defeated France and Spain in the Seven Years' War (1756–63) ...
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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 | |