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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... social reality, they help to define as well as to legitimate collective needs and interests. Hence, there is a continuous interaction between ideology and the material forces in history ... The salient characteristic of an ideology is ...
... social construction (Berlin, 1998). True racism, argues George Frederickson (2002), awaited the rise of modernity and its secular, rational justifications that legitimized Western imperialism. Racism was a product of the Enlightenment ...
... social heirarchization ... property [and] health ... received ... their justification from the mythical concern with protecting the purity of the blood and ensuring the triumph of the race. (Foucault, 1979, p. 149) In Exterminate all ...
... social order and imperial interests in both metropole and colony. Technological developments also facilitated speedier movement of soldiers from one part of the empire to police imperial subjects in another, and air power strengthened ...
Դուք հասել եք այս գրքի դիտումների առավելագույն քանակին.
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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 | |