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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... in the cruel destruction of the Aztecs and Incas was, in effect, an international venture of ruthless self-interested European soldiers, adventurers, entrepreneurs and opportunists (Columbus was from the Italian city state of Genoa) ...
... in the Americas and vied for maritime supremacy in the Caribbean (Parry, 1961; Boxer, 1965; Modelski and Thompson, 1988). By the seventeenth century Europeans had opened up 'virgin' land and established plantations producing primary ...
... in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the reign of Edward I (1272–1307) and its dependencies were the Celtic fringes: Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Future external imperial expansion was arguably the offspring of this 'internal ...
... in the Congo basin (Middle Africa) and extended Western humanitarian international agreements on anti-slavery. The emergence of the USA as an imperial power ushered in the era of Western, as opposed to European, imperialism. Imperialism ...
... in the imperial centre and their collaborators in the periphery. No city was as big as Rome, with its population of around one million, until late-eighteenth-century London, and its consumers needed the resources of the whole empire ...
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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 | |