The British Empire And Its Contested Pasts
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The British Empire And Its Contested Pasts
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Author : Robert J. Blyth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The British Empire And Its Contested Pasts written by Robert J. Blyth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Imperial rule, commerce, culture and contestation of empire are all represented in this volume, with a particular (but by no means exclusive) focus on aspects and consequences of Britain's Asian empire, as well as reflections on Irish engagements with the British imperial phenomenon. While engagements between colonisers (including those bringing with them a 'civilising mission') and indigenous peoples are explored, so too are cultural perceptions of empire by Britons, and Britain by the colonised who ventured to the imperial 'Mother Country'. Unexpected corners of the imperial experience are covered, including Belfast-supported missionaries in Nigeria and French Canadian sympathizers for Irish nationalists. Affirmations of empire stand side by side with contestations in, for example, China, Ireland, Africa and Canada. *** "...contributions add up to a lively and many-faceted volume that will profit all students of the British Empire..." - Victorian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 4, Summer 2012Ã?Â?Ã?Â?
Imperial Legacies
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Author : Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Imperial Legacies written by Jeremy Black and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with History categories.
Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.
The British Empire
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Author : League of the Empire
language : en
Publisher: London : The League of the Empire (on behalf of the trustees of the Spitzel Imperial Education Trust)
Release Date : 1909
The British Empire written by League of the Empire and has been published by London : The League of the Empire (on behalf of the trustees of the Spitzel Imperial Education Trust) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Colonies categories.
The British Empire
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Author : Philippa Levine
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 2007
The British Empire written by Philippa Levine and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Violent, powerful, vast: the British Empire is typically viewed as distant and tropical. By contrast, this book examines the effects of the empire on men, women and children across the globe: both those under imperial rule and those who implemented it. Looking beyond politics and diplomacy, Philippa Levine combines a traditional approach to colonial history with an investigation of the experience of living within the empire. Spanning the period from Cromwell’s rule to decolonization in the late twentieth century, and including an extensive chronology for ease of reference, Levine considers the impact of British rule for people in Africa, India and Australia, as well as for the English rulers, and for the Welsh, Scots and Irish who were subject to 'internal colonialism' under the English yoke. Imperialism often led to serious unrest; Levine examines the cruel side of imperialism’s purportedly 'civilizing' mission unflinchingly.
The British Empire
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Author : Albert Frederick Pollard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
The British Empire written by Albert Frederick Pollard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Commonwealth countries categories.
The Trouble With Empire
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Author : Antoinette Burton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-17
The Trouble With Empire written by Antoinette Burton 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 2015-09-17 with History categories.
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes of imperial security worked in practice. This emphasis on protest and struggle is intended not only to reveal indigenous agency but to illuminate the limits of imperial power, official and unofficial, as well. "Pax Britannica"-the conviction that peace was the dominant feature of modern British imperialism-remains the working presumption of most empire histories in the twenty-first century. The Trouble with Empire, in contrast, originates from skepticism about the ability of hegemons to rule unchallenged and about the capacity of imperial rule to finally and fully subdue those who contested it. The book follows various forms of dissent and disruption, both large and small, in three domains: the theater of war, the arena of market relations, and the realm of political order. Tracking how empire did and did not work via those who struggled against it recasts ways of measuring not simply imperial success or failure, but its very viability across the uneven terrain of daily power. The Trouble with Empire argues that empires are never finally or fully accomplished but are always in motion, subject to pressures from below as well as above. In an age of spectacular insurgency and counterinsurgency across many of the former possessions of Britain's global empire, such a genealogy of the forces that troubled imperial hegemony are needed now more than ever.
The Empire Strikes Back
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Author : Andrew Stuart Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2005
The Empire Strikes Back written by Andrew Stuart Thompson and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
"The book concludes by examining the British people's relation to empire in recent times, engaging with many contemporary issues, such as the Falklands conflict, the repatriation of Hong Kong and the impact of immigration. A fascinating study for all those concerned with how the past shapes both the present and the future, this book is essential reading for students and scholars alike."--BOOK JACKET.
The British Empire
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Author : Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The British Empire written by Jeremy Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with History categories.
What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire, but also a perspective from which to consider the issues of its strengths and weaknesses, and rights and wrongs. In short, this is history both of the past, and of the present-day discussion of the past, that recognises that discussion over historical empires is in part a reflection of the consideration of contemporary states. In this book Professor Black weaves together an overview of the British Empire across the centuries, with a considered commentary on both the public historiography of empire and the politically-charged character of much discussion of it. There is a coverage here of social as well as political and economic dimensions of empire, and both the British perspective and that of the colonies is considered. The chronological dimension is set by the need to consider not only imperial expansion by the British state, but also the history of Britain within an imperial context. As such, this is a story of empires within the British Isles, Europe, and, later, world-wide. The book addresses global decline, decolonisation, and the complex nature of post-colonialism and different imperial activity in modern and contemporary history. Taking a revisionist approach, there is no automatic assumption that imperialism, empire and colonialism were ’bad’ things. Instead, there is a dispassionate and evidence-based evaluation of the British empire as a form of government, an economic system, and a method of engagement with the world, one with both faults and benefits for the metropole and the colony.
The Debate On The Rise Of British Imperialism
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Author : Anthony Webster
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-05
The Debate On The Rise Of British Imperialism written by Anthony Webster and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-05 with History categories.
This fascinating and highly useful book examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and controversy surrounding the subject, and how different generations of historians have read the various episodes in the history of the empire often radically differently. An engaging and useful work of historiography, this book will be essential reading for students of British imperialism attempting to get to grips with the subject.
The British Empire
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Author : Stephen Leacock
language : en
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Release Date : 1940
The British Empire written by Stephen Leacock and has been published by New York : Dodd, Mead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1940 with Commonwealth countries categories.
Description of the British Empire and its component parts.