Imperialism and Postcolonialism

ISBN-13: 9780582505834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str.

Barbara Bush

Opis

Explores intellectual, theoretical and conceptual developments in imperial history. This book begins by examining the nature of empire, and then looks at continuity and change in the historiography of imperialism and theoretical and conceptual developments. It is suitable for undergraduates taking courses in imperial and colonial history.

Spis treści

Introduction,  Chapter 1    Untangling imperialism: comparisons over time and space.  Chapter 2    Untangling imperialism: theories, concepts and historiography  Defining colonialism and imperialism.  Case study 1    Conceptualizing imperialism: the case of Ireland.  Chapter 3    Imperialism and modernity.  Case study 2    China and Japan: modernity, imperialism and anti-Westernism.  Chapter 4    Culture and imperialism.  Case study 3    Culture and imperialism in British Africa.  Chapter 5    Representing empire.  Case study 4    Representing empire in British culture.  Chapter 6    Postcolonial perspectives: imperialism or globalization?

O autorze

Barbara Bush is a Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her key publications include Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 (1990), which was selected as a Choice Book of the Year in 1991; Imperialism, Race and Resistance:Africa and Britain, 1919-1945,(1999) and ‘Gender and Empire: The Twentieth Century’ in Gender and Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire, Companion Series (2004) edited by Philippa Levine.