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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... perspective, a study of imperialism must interrogate empires andimperialism. In explaining the rise and fall of empires, some political historians have favoured the term 'Great Powers' (Kennedy, 1988), prioritizing the powerful modern ...
... perspectives. I am not entering into theoretical debates about the causes of imperialism, which have been meticulously and extensively developed since the 1960s and revived by the postcolonial challenge (Cain and Harrison (eds), 2001) ...
... perspectives on race, class, gender, sexuality, the psychology of violence, the interplay of economics and culture and the dialectics of the colonial encounter, areas formerly neglected or marginalized in imperial histories, have ...
... The focus embraces resistance and imperial power as these two facets of imperial history are implicitly linked (Bush, 1999). For the same reasons, gender perspectives have been integrated where relevant, rather than dealt 6 Introduction.
Barbara Bush. gender perspectives have been integrated where relevant, rather than dealt with separately. I have ... perspective than a British imperial historian whose past family prosperity derived from the Empire. A Marxist historian ...
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theories concepts and historiography | 43 |
Chapter 3 Imperialism and modernity | 77 |
Chapter 4 Culture and imperialism | 115 |
Chapter 5 Representing empire | 146 |
imperialism or globalization? | 187 |
Recommended reading | 216 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 270 |