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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... and, as Lenin and the British liberal critic of empire, J. A. Hobson, emphasized, is intimately linked to culture and politics. The socio-psychological significance of empire to national identities and cultures should also not be ...
... and the differences and similarities between them? What contitutes an empire? Barfield (2002) defines primary empires as large territories that control millions of people and have common internal characteristics. Such characteristics ...
... and subsequent conquest were 'just wars' fired by a superior Espanidad ('Spanishness'), defined by a high class status, Catholicism, service to God and King and purity of blood through lineage (Deagan, 2002, pp. 185–6). The Islamic ...
... (and present) themselves as unique in their benevolence in contrast to other empires, including Rome, emphasizing more similarities between the British and American empires than between Washington and Rome (Colley, 2002c, pp. 4–5). But ...
... and power, and the citizen/non-citizen, victor/conquered distinction diminished in later empire. Freedmen and slaves who served emperors became figures of power and influence (Garnsey and Saller, 1987, pp. 115–19). Such mobility was not ...
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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 | |