Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Imperialism

A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery"...

National Book Award for Poetry, 1973

Beginning with -long poem of these States, - The Fall of America continues Planet News chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness. . . .

- Ginsberg] is never negligible, and he is often (the only true test) unforgettable.- -- Helen Vendler, New York Times Book...

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain's expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of...

John Reed's classic account of Pancho Villa and the Mexican revolution is an early example of an "embedded" journalist, who shared the daily lives of the insurgents and was a witness to the wretched lives of the Mexican people. This is one of the most vivid testimonies of this revolutionary upheaval.

This volume looks at the birth of the republics of the Americas and the early anticolonial struggles for independence, beginning with the War of Independence in North America, the liberation struggle in Haiti, and then the movements in South and Central America led by Simon Bolivar and Francisco Morazan.

Here Alberto Prieto argues that the Cuban Revolution marked a turning point in the history of the Americas, with imperialism still mired in the Cold War, while revolutionary movements emerged that subsequently led to the rise of the new social movements and the revival of the concept of Latin American unity.

The first volume in a comprehensive history of Latin America by one of the continent's most prominent historians. It begins examining pre-Columbian society and the violent clashes with the colonizers, the subsequent emergence of a mestiza culture, and the development of a national identity that foreshadowed the struggles for independence.

At its greatest Spain was a master of Europe: its government was respected, its armies were feared, and its conquistadores carved out a vast empire. Yet this splendid power was rapidly to lose its impetus and...