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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... political and military systems combined with maritime and economic innovation. Hegemonic instability, however, resulted in a reordering and stabilizing of the international system and China was challenged by the aggressive Mediterranean ...
... political basis for self perpetuation'. This was facilitated by the emergence of monotheism. Formerly pagan empires were now defined by cultural and political universalism, rooted in the unifying religions of Christianity and Islam that ...
... political and cultural superiority of Western civilization. Untangling the relationship between economic growth, capitalism and imperialism is particularly challenging in relation to the history of the USA. When colonists launched the ...
... political and ideological power demands a fuller exploration of the commonalities and divergences between empires over time. The civilizing mission and justificatory ideologies Economic and racial oppression represented the uglier side ...
... political power exercised in the second half of the nineteenth century: Racism took shape at this point, racism in its modern 'biologising' statist form: it was then that the whole policies of settlement, family, marriage, education ...
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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 | |