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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... historians, social scientists, and literary and cultural theorists, the scope is interdisciplinary. I am also concerned with continuities between the colonial and 'postcolonial'. The word 'empire' stretches back 2,000 years to the Latin ...
... historians and political scientists. Almost every facet has now been covered: gender, sexuality, homosexuality, law, sport, the ecological impact, medicine and imperialism and the 'empire at home'. As a researcher and teacher of ...
... historian whose past family prosperity derived from the Empire. A Marxist historian like Eric Hobsbawm will adopt a different conceptual framework in writing about imperialism from a liberal, freemarket enthusiast such as Niall Ferguson ...
... Historians who stressed continuity did not go back much further than the emergence of the Second British Empire in the late eighteenth century, a Eurocentric position that excluded important developments in earlier periods, even prior ...
... historian, Herodotus (c. 450 BC), superior democratic, rational and progressive Greek identities were contrasted with inferior barbaric 'others' of the autocratic Persian Empire. Partly motivated by revenge, between 336 and his death in ...
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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 | |