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Isles Of Empire
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Author : Peter C. Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Isles Of Empire written by Peter C. Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A look at the economic, social, and political histories (and current prospects) of the US's four most important territorial possessions: Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. The wide-ranging discussion, touching upon education, settlement patterns, political expressions of discontent, and other topics, is presented as an effort to determine whether the administration of these possessions is proper. In the final analysis, the author determines, the intangible benefits of dispossession would be better for both rulers and ruled. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The First English Empire
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Author : R. R. Davies
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-10-05
The First English Empire written by R. R. Davies and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-05 with History categories.
The future of the United Kingdom is an increasingly vexed question. This book traces the roots of the issue to the middle ages, when English power and control came to extend to the whole of the British Isles. By 1300 it looked as if Edward I was in control of virtually the whole of the British Isles. Ireland, Scotland, and Wales had, in different degrees, been subjugated to his authority; contemporaries were even comparing him with King Arthur. This was the culmination of a remarkable English advance into the outer zones of the British Isles in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The advance was not only a matter of military power, political control, and governmental and legal institutions; it also involved extensive colonization and the absorption of these outer zones into the economic and cultural orbit of an England-dominated world. What remained to be seen was how stable (especially in Scotland and Ireland) was this English 'empire'; how far the northern and western parts of the British Isles could be absorbed into an English-centred polity and society; and to what extent did the early and self-confident development of English identity determine the relationships between England and the rest of the British Isles. The answers to those questions would be shaped by the past of the country that was England; the answers would also cast their shadow over the future of the British Isles for centuries to come.
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail
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Author : Douglas Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail written by Douglas Hamilton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail.
Islands Of Empire
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Author : Camilla Fojas
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Islands Of Empire written by Camilla Fojas and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Examining a broad range of pop culture media-film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature-Fojas explores the United States as an empire and how it has narrated its relationship to its island territories.
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail
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Author : Douglas J. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Islands And The British Empire In The Age Of Sail written by Douglas J. Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Great Britain categories.
Empire Islands
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Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2007
Empire Islands written by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.
Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands
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Author : W. David McIntyre
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
Winding Up The British Empire In The Pacific Islands written by W. David McIntyre and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
The first detailed account - based on recently-opened archives - of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands.
African Islands
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: Rochester Studies in African H
Release Date : 2019
African Islands written by Toyin Falola and has been published by Rochester Studies in African H this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Business & Economics categories.
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast
Islands And Empire
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Author : Thomas Mockaitis
language : en
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Islands And Empire written by Thomas Mockaitis and has been published by Cognella Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with categories.
Islands and Empire: A History of Modern Britain situates the United Kingdom within a local, European, and global historical context. It examines the forces of imperialism, emphasizing the dynamic interaction between the colonies and the metropole. The book addresses questions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender and gives voice to the diversity of people who shaped and were shaped by Britain and its empire. The text is divided into three key time periods: 1688 - 1815; 1815 - 1914; and 1914 - 2021. Part One examines the historical trends and patterns that began with the Revolution of 1688 and continued through the Napoleonic Wars. Its chapters explore the demographics of the British Isles, the creation of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, the beliefs, ideas, and attitudes that comprised the eighteenth-century world view, the development of political structures, the expansion of the empire, and the accompanying economic transformations. Covering the time period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the start of World War I, Part Two discusses population growth, evolving gender roles, the Industrial Revolution and urbanization, and political and social reform. It also examines the further expansion of the British Empire, settler colonialism, and the relationships between Britain and its overseas possessions. Part Three introduces readers to contemporary Britain, an era that saw two world wars, and the dissolution of the empire. It examines the emergence of contemporary British society, economics, diplomacy, art, culture, and post-colonial life and ideas. Islands and Empire provides students with a comprehensive, engaging, and complete overview of modern British and imperial history eminently suited to introductory courses.
The Dance Of The Islands
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Author : Christy Constantakopoulou
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-07-29
The Dance Of The Islands written by Christy Constantakopoulou and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the interplay between island isolation and island interaction, but the predominance of islands in the Aegean sea made island isolation almost impossible. Rather, island connectivity was an important feature of the history of the Aegean and was expressed on many levels. Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in two prominent areas, religion and imperial politics, examining both the religious networks located on islands in the ancient Greek world and the impact of imperial politics on the Aegean islands during the fifth century.