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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... imperialism in British Africa Chapter 5 Representing empire Representing empire: dominant discourses Representation and the legitimization of imperial power Constructing the colonial/Orientalized subject: race and cultural difference ...
... British imperial military power in India: 'Blowing up the Cashmere Gate' (the siege of Lucknow, 1857) from Rev. C. S. Dawe, King Edward's Realm: The Story ofthe Making of the Empire(London, The Educational Supply Association Limited, c ...
... Britain's 'First Empire' (Armitage, 2001). The move from Empire to Commonwealth from the late 1930s onwards can be interpreted as a strategy of the British establishment to hold on to power in the face of mounting colonial resistance ...
... British Empire from circathe eighteenth century (Johnson, 2003; Smith, 1998; Porter, 2004) and deal mainly with conventional debates, although Cain and Hopkins (2001) provide a stimulating study of the changing nature of British imperialism ...
... British Empire (5 vols, 1998 –2000) revealed the durability of conventional and/or Eurocentric tendencies in imperial history. There is still far less published on anti-imperialism than on imperialism and West-centred, particularly British ...
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theories concepts and historiography | 43 |
Chapter 3 Imperialism and modernity | 77 |
Chapter 4 Culture and imperialism | 115 |
Chapter 5 Representing empire | 146 |
imperialism or globalization? | 187 |
Recommended reading | 216 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 270 |