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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... . The conventional starting point for modern imperialism and the restructuring of the world through capitalist expansion and globalization is the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of Untangling imperialism: comparisons over time and space.
... capitalism, European modernity (Chapter 3) and fortuitous ecological and physical factors or, in the words of Jared Diamond, 'we are all equal but the playing fields are not' (Diamond, 1997). All three have some validity. Assumptions of ...
... capitalism, the move from slave production to 'free labour' and from protected to free trade. Imperial and economic strength without competition led to the expansion of 'informal' imperialism from 1840 to 1870 (Robinson and Gallagher ...
... capitalism. Forged through capitalist rivalry, it was associated with the decline of older empires (China, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Turkey) that were economically backward. As Lieven (2000) observes, the British and Russian empires ...
... capitalist, proto-capitalist or capitalist. Evidence relating to the Roman Empire is sparse, but land was the basis of wealth and the landed aristocracy were the dominant class; the mass of the population were at or near subsistence ...
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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 | |