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Author : Charlotte Lydia Riley
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2024

Imperial Island written by Charlotte Lydia Riley and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.

After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research, Riley tells a story of immigration and exclusion, social strife and cultural transformation. It is the story that best explains Britain today.

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Author : Charlotte Lydia Riley
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-08-24

Imperial Island written by Charlotte Lydia Riley and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with History categories.

Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONES 'Absorbing ... dextrously handled and carefully sourced' Financial Times After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens from Asia and the Caribbean migrated to a motherland that often refused to recognise them. Race riots erupted in Liverpool and Notting Hill even as communities lived and loved across the colour line. In the 1950s and 60s, imperial violence came home too, pervading the policing of immigrant communities, including their sex lives. In the decade that followed, a surge of support for the far-right inspired an invigorated anti-racist movement. These tensions, and the imperial mindset that birthed them, have dominated Britain's relationship with itself and the world ever since: from the jingoism of the Falklands War to the simplistic moral equation of Band Aid, from the rise of the gap year abroad to the invasion of Iraq. Most recently, in the tragedy of Stephen Lawrence and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, we see how Britain's contradictory relationship with its past has undermined its self-image as a multicultural nation, helping explain the Windrush deportations and Brexit. Drawing on a mass of new research, from personal letters to pop culture, Imperial Island tells a story of immigration and fractured identity, of social strife and communal solidarity, of people on the move and of a people wrestling with their past. It is the story that best explains Britain today. 'A thought-provoking delight that absolutely everyone should read' STEPHEN BUSH 'Incisive, important, and incredibly timely' CAROLINE ELKINS 'An eye-opening study of the empire within' SHASHI THAROOR 'Clear, bold, refreshing' LUCY WORSLEY 'Immaculately detailed and impeccably researched' HELEN CARR

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Author : Paul Kléber Monod
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-03-30

Imperial Island written by Paul Kléber Monod and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-30 with History categories.

Imperial Island: A History of Britain and its Empire, 1660-1837 is a comprehensive account of Great Britain's imperial path from the Stuart Restoration of 1660 to its emergence as a dominant global superpower. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of British history Organized to help students and instructors: comprises 21 thematic chapters set within a clear, chronological framework Includes over 30 illustrations and maps to help orient the reader Addresses the new generation of American and British students that are interested in global, environmental, and cultural history

The Imperial Island

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Author : James Frothingham Hunnewell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

The Imperial Island written by James Frothingham Hunnewell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Architecture categories.

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Author : James F. Hunnewell
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-03-15

The Imperial Island written by James F. Hunnewell and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with History categories.

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The Imperial Island

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Author : James Frothingham Hunnewell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

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Author : James Frothingham Hunnewell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-09

Excerpt from The Imperial Island: England's Chronicle in Stone About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Imperial Islands

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Author : Joseph R. Hartman
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30

Imperial Islands written by Joseph R. Hartman and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.

When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana’s harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and “liberate” Cuba from the Spanish empire. “Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!” So went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the United States was not going to give them freedom—in less than a year the American flag replaced the Spanish flag over the various island colonies of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Spurred by military successes and dreams of an island empire, the US annexed Hawai‘i that same year, even establishing island colonies throughout Micronesia and the Antilles. With the new governmental orders of creating new art, architecture, monuments, and infrastructure from the United States, the island cultures of the Caribbean and Pacific were now caught in a strategic scope of a growing imperial power. These spatial and visual objects created a visible confrontation between local indigenous, African, Asian, Spanish, and US imperial expressions. These material and visual histories often go unacknowledged, but serve as uncomplicated “proof” for the visible confrontation between the US and the new island territories. The essays in this volume contribute to an important art-historical, visual cultural, architectural, and materialist critique of a growing body of scholarship on the US Empire and the War of 1898. Imperial Islands seeks to reimagine the history and cultural politics of art, architecture, and visual experience in the US insular context. The authors of this volume propose a new direction of visual culture and spatial experience through nuanced terrains for writing, envisioning, and revising US-American, Caribbean, and Pacific histories. These original essays address the role of art and architecture in expressions of state power; racialized and gendered representations of the United States and its island colonies; and forms of resistance to US cultural presence. Featuring interdisciplinary approaches, Imperial Islands offers readers a new way of learning the ongoing significance of vision and experience in the US empire today, particularly for Caribbean, Latinx, Pilipinx, and Pacific Island communities.

Imperial Andamans

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Author : A. Vaidik
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-28

Imperial Andamans written by A. Vaidik and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with History categories.

This book traverses the Indian Ocean in the period when the British held sway over the major oceanic waters of the world. In reviving the history of the Andamans as an important imperial prize, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of British colonialism, nationalism and the creation of modern India from its geographic periphery.

Imperial Intimacies

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Author : Hazel V. Carby
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-09-24

Imperial Intimacies written by Hazel V. Carby and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020 Highly commended for PEN Hessell–Tiltman Prize 2020 A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby’s working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the “white Carbys” and the “black Carbys,” including Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby’s family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire’s interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.

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