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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... studies of imperialism stimulated by postcolonial theory provide the conceptual framework. Chapters 1 and 2 are foundational chapters. Chapter 1 explores the nature of empires from ancient to modern and queries the unique nature of ...
... studies raise important questions about continuities, differences and similarities between empires across the epochs. Change was generated by competing power interests but also resistance to hegemonic imperial agencies by the oppressed ...
... studies (Fyfe, 1992). As Jane Sampson has stressed, explorations of the link between race and empire are marked by controversy (Sampson, 2005). In Ornamentalism (2001) David Cannadine disputes the primacy of race in favour of class and ...
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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 | |