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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... Western representations of non-Western societies 83 • 87 • 91 • 93 • 96 100 115 116 120 122 125 • • • • • 130 • 132 137 146 147 • • 149 • 154 • 167 • 172 Case study 4 Representing empire in British culture Chapter 6 vi Contents.
Barbara Bush. Introduction. In. the popular Western imagination empires are either a thing of the past or the empires of cinema fantasy, as in the Empire Strikes Back. In the political rhetoric of 1980s Reaganite America, the last ...
... Western and ancient empires (Alcock et al., 2002), but imperialism is still conceptualized predominantly within a modern West-centred context. As Michael Adas (1998) points out, much can be learned from applying concepts of colonialism ...
... Western intellectuals are more likely to see empire in a negative perspective than a British imperial historian whose past family prosperity derived from the Empire. A Marxist historian like Eric Hobsbawm will adopt a different ...
... Western Europe. A cycle of the rise of empires through concentration, decline through deconcentration, and reconcentration in new imperial centres thus began (W. R. Thompson, 2000, pp. 13 –14). Such studies raise important questions ...
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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 |