The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

ISBN-13: 9780190858551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Antoinette Burton

Opis

A short, idea driven history of resistance to the British empire, written by a senior British historian.

Recenzje

Burton brings together trends in feminist and subaltern histories in order to complicate the historiographical narratives of British imperialism. Burton aims to provide a counter-narrative to histories such as Niall Ferguson's Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. In doing so, she is bridging the gap between these more populist histories and scholarly works. New students of imperialism at the undergraduate level will enjoy this book as an introduction to British imperialism, while her nuancing of the narratives will appeal to a wider audience who may be interested in histories of empire.

O autorze

Antoinette Burton is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, she is the author of numerous works on the British empire, women and feminism, and world history, including At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain and Empire in Question: Reading, Writing and Teaching British Imperialism.