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 humanitarian international agreements on anti-slavery. The emergence of the USA as an imperial power ushered in ... west coast. Panama was acknowledged by the European powers as a US protectorate. American Empire proper begins in ...
... Western world had been drawn into the orbit of Western imperialism. British and US informal imperialism had expanded in postcolonial Latin America and the few remaining independent states of Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Siam (Thailand) and ...
... West Africa and other non-settler peasant societies, taxation was used to force production of cash crops and draw ... Western civilisation: Classicism and Christianity shared a triumphalist image. Each invented 'Otherness' to define ...
... Western concept of race coalesced through contact with Africa and slavery between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and so race is a historically derived social construction (Berlin, 1998). True racism, argues George Frederickson ...
... West) the crucial edge in consolidating global systems of power (Pomeranz, 2000, p. 19). Western military dominance in warfare in the twentieth century, argues Lieven (2000), proved that technology and economic power always win in the ...
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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 | |