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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Արդյունքներ 50–ի 6-ից 10-ը:
... , pp. 11–12, 16). The word reich, as applied to the Germanic Holy Roman Empire (962–c. 1806) from the fourteenth century, is also an early conception of 'commonwealth'; the empire was, in effect, a loose association of.
... Roman Empire? European history has been divorced for too long from its vital imperial context. Additionally, academic research and teaching still favour the narrow local, rather than the broader global, focus. Concepts and definitions ...
... Roman to the present-day American Empire. As empires and imperialism are of interest to historians, social scientists, and literary and cultural theorists, the scope is interdisciplinary. I am also concerned with continuities between ...
... Roman Empire (see Map 1, p. xvi). Russia inherited the Byzantine Christian legacy and Spain claimed legitimate decent from the Carolingian and Roman empires (Barfield, 2002). Later British and American empires also harked back to Rome ...
... Roman Empire (c. 55 BC to AD 410) established important principles of imperial rule that echoed down to the later nineteenth-century European empires. The Roman imperium was not simply a territory but encapsulated the Roman notion of ...
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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 | |