Ambiguities Of Empire

Author : Robert Holland,Sarah Stockwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317990758

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This book comprises essays offered by friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Andrew Porter, on the occasion of his retirement from the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The contributors, including many distinguished historians, explore through a variety of case studies ‘ambiguities of empire’ and of imperial and quasi-imperial relationships, reflecting important themes in Professor Porter’s own writing. Whilst the range of articles reflects the breadth of Andrew Porter’s scholarly collaborations and interests, the chapters focus in particular on two aspects of imperial history which have been the subject of his particular attention: religion and empire and the end of empire. The book contains original pieces on the history of British imperialism currently the subject of considerable scholarly attention. The book will be invaluable to students and scholars of empire, religion and colonialism. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Author : Robert Holland,Sarah Stockwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0415852609

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Ambiguities of Empire by Robert Holland,Sarah Stockwell Pdf

This book comprises essays offered by friends, colleagues, and former students in tribute to Andrew Porter, on the occasion of his retirement from the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The contributors, including many distinguished historians, explore through a variety of case studies 'ambiguities of empire' and of imperial and quasi-imperial relationships, reflecting important themes in Professor Porter's own writing. Whilst the range of articles reflects the breadth of Andrew Porter's scholarly collaborations and interests, the chapters focus in particular on two aspects of imperial history which have been the subject of his particular attention: religion and empire and the end of empire. The book contains original pieces on the history of British imperialism currently the subject of considerable scholarly attention. The book will be invaluable to students and scholars of empire, religion and colonialism. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Author : Francis Jennings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0393303020

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The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire by Francis Jennings Pdf

Continues: The invasion of America. 1976, c1975.

Author : Kevork Oskanian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030697136

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Russian Exceptionalism between East and West by Kevork Oskanian Pdf

This monograph provides a novel long-term approach to the role of Russia’s imperial legacies in its interactions with the former Soviet space. It develops ‘Hybrid Exceptionalism’ as a critical conceptual tool aimed at uncovering the great power’s self-positioning between ‘East’ and ‘West’, and its hierarchical claims over subalterns situated in both civilizational imaginaries. It explores how, in the Tsarist, Soviet, and contemporary eras, distinct civilizational spaces were created, and maintained, through narratives and practices emanating from Russia’s ambiguous relationship with Western modernity, and its part-identification with a subordinated ‘Orient’. The Romanov Empire’s struggles with ‘Russianness’, the USSR’s Marxism-Leninism, and contemporary Russia’s combination of feigned liberal and civilizational discourses are explored as the basis of a series of successive civilising missions, through an interdisciplinary engagement with official discourses, scholarship, and the arts. The book concludes with an exploration of contemporary policy implications for the West, and the former Soviet states themselves.

Author : Robert Holland,S. E. Stockwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124151122

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This volume, written by distinguished historians and former students, is a tribute to Andrew Porter - the Rhodes Chair in Imperial History at the University of London. The essays explore 'ambiguities of empire' and of imperial and quasi-imperial relationships, reflecting important themes in Professor Porter's own writing.

Author : Ingrid M. Hoofd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136257544

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Ambiguities of Activism by Ingrid M. Hoofd Pdf

This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change activism), as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like Michael Hardt, Al Gore, Antonio Negri, Hakim Bey, and Geert Lovink), mobilize problematic discourses, tools, and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced, and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out how these mobilizations and theorizations, despite (or possibly because of) their liberatory claims, are actually implicated in the intensification of global hierarchies by repeatedly invoking narratives of transcendence, connection, progress, and in particular of speed. Hoofd argues that the humanist ideals that underlie all these practices paradoxically trigger increasing disenfranchisements worldwide.

Author : Eve Troutt Powell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520233171

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A Different Shade of Colonialism by Eve Troutt Powell Pdf

Annotation A history of the three-way colonial relationship among Britain, Egypt, and the Sudan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unlike most books on colonialism, this one deals explicitly with race and slavery.

Author : Janka Kaščáková,Janka Kaščăkovă
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443827492

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Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous by Janka Kaščáková,Janka Kaščăkovă Pdf

However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the essential features of the postmodern age: how it can be defined as opposed to what it means or is, where it can be found, to what purposes it can be put, including questions of whether it is a positive or negative factor. But this, of course, is not a new phenomenon. Writers have always depended on equivocation, multiplicity of meaning, uncertainty of meaning—deliberate mystification one might say. Language itself is the base of ambiguity not only in literature but in everyday public discourse. Thus the papers in the volume should appeal not only to scholars working in the fields of modern or postmodern literature, but those who see the importance of ambiguity in the earlier texts, and perhaps their influences in later writing. Finally the essays included here not only provide specific analyses and proposed solutions for specific works or authors they also open the reader to other appearances of ambiguity, often not simply in literature or critical theory, but in the kinds of social issues the literary works deals with.

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0887558186

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Imperial Plots by Sarah Carter Pdf

Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Author : Charles R. Lyons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811018

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Shakespeare and the Ambiguity of Love's Triumph by Charles R. Lyons Pdf

Author : Guy Maclean Rogers
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812972719

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Alexander by Guy Maclean Rogers Pdf

For nearly two and a half millennia, Alexander the Great has loomed over history as a legend–and an enigma. Wounded repeatedly but always triumphant in battle, he conquered most of the known world, only to die mysteriously at the age of thirty-two. In his day he was revered as a god; in our day he has been reviled as a mass murderer, a tyrant as brutal as Stalin or Hitler. Who was the man behind the mask of power? Why did Alexander embark on an unprecedented program of global domination? What accounted for his astonishing success on the battlefield? In this luminous new biography, the esteemed classical scholar and historian Guy MacLean Rogers sifts through thousands of years of history and myth to uncover the truth about this complex, ambiguous genius. Ascending to the throne of Macedonia after the assassination of his father, King Philip II, Alexander discovered while barely out of his teens that he had an extraordinary talent and a boundless appetite for military conquest. A virtuoso of violence, he was gifted with an uncanny ability to visualize how a battle would unfold, coupled with devastating decisiveness in the field. Granicus, Issos, Gaugamela, Hydaspes–as the victories mounted, Alexander’s passion for conquest expanded from cities to countries to continents. When Persia, the greatest empire of his day, fell before him, he marched at once on India, intending to add it to his holdings. As Rogers shows, Alexander’s military prowess only heightened his exuberant sexuality. Though his taste for multiple partners, both male and female, was tolerated, Alexander’s relatively enlightened treatment of women was nothing short of revolutionary. He outlawed rape, he placed intelligent women in positions of authority, and he chose his wives from among the peoples he conquered. Indeed, as Rogers argues, Alexander’s fascination with Persian culture, customs, and sexual practices may have led to his downfall, perhaps even to his death. Alexander emerges as a charismatic and surprisingly modern figure–neither a messiah nor a genocidal butcher but one of the most imaginative and daring military tacticians of all time. Balanced and authoritative, this brilliant portrait brings Alexander to life as a man, without diminishing the power of the legend.

Author : Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521779774

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The Ambiguous Legacy by Michael J. Hogan Pdf

This collection assesses the record of American foreign policy in the twentieth century.

Author : John Baylis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0198280122

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Ambiguity and Deterrence by John Baylis Pdf

This text focuses on the disagreements which existed in British political and military circles over nuclear strategy directly after World War II. Based on recently released documents, it argues that British policy in this important area was much more ambiguous than is commonly supposed.

Author : Edward P. Pompeian
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421443386

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Sustaining Empire by Edward P. Pompeian Pdf

"To endure war, slave rebellion, and revolution between 1795 and 1821, colonial Venezuelans engaged in neutral commerce with the United States. Trading with the United States thereafter prolonged Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles"--

Author : Thomas Bauer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231553322

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A Culture of Ambiguity by Thomas Bauer Pdf

In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam’s medieval “Golden Age,” marked by rationality, tolerance, and even proto-secularism. How can we understand Islamic history, culture, and thought beyond this dichotomy? In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency that looks for ways to live with ambiguity and accept complexity. Bauer ranges across cultural and linguistic ambiguities, considering premodern Islamic textual and cultural forms from law to Quranic exegesis to literary genres alongside attitudes toward religious minorities and foreigners. He emphasizes the relative absence of conflict between religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to both present-day fundamentalism and much of European history. Bauer shows how Islam’s encounter with the modern West and its demand for certainty helped bring about both Islamicist and secular liberal ideologies that in their own ways rejected ambiguity—and therefore also their own cultural traditions. Awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize, A Culture of Ambiguity not only reframes a vast range of Islamic history but also offers an interdisciplinary model for investigating the tolerance of ambiguity across cultures and eras.