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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... From the 1960s to the 1980s, change and continuity in imperialism were at the heart of debates centred on the New Imperialism, circa 1870–1914. Historians who stressed continuity did not go back much further than the emergence of the ...
... from the Carolingian and Roman empires (Barfield, 2002). Later British and American empires also harked back to Rome, the archetypal, Ur empire past and present. Time. and. change: the. ebb. and. flow. of. empires. Before modern Europe ...
... from the second century, the peak of Rome's prosperity, to the ninth century and the onset of the decline of the Islamic empire. This orbis terrarum (the whole world) stretched from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Iranian plateau but ...
... from the Caspian to the Pacific and was twice the size of the Roman Empire (Man, 2004). The Mughal Empire of North India (1529–1757) was founded by descendants of Genghis Khan, who had assimilated the Islamic culture and religion of the ...
... from the Iberian Peninsula, combined with improvements in navigation, facilitated the Spanish and Portuguese seaborne empires (Boxer, 1969; Scammel, 1989) and the European remapping of the world. Spain dominated in Latin and Central ...
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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 | |