Geographies Of Empire

Author : Robin A. Butlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 052174055X

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Geographies of Empire by Robin A. Butlin Pdf

How did the major European imperial powers and indigenous populations experience imperialism and colonisation in the period 1880-1960? In this richly-illustrated comparative account, Robin Butlin provides a comprehensive overview of the experiences of individual European imperial powers - British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, German and Italian - and the reactions of indigenous peoples. He explores the complex processes and discourses of colonialism, conquest and resistance from the height of empire through to decolonisation and sets these within the dynamics of the globalisation of political and economic power systems. He sheds new light on variations in the timing, nature and locations of European colonisations and on key themes such as exploration and geographical knowledge; maps and mapping; demographics; land seizure and environmental modification; transport and communications; and resistance and independence movements. In so doing, he makes a major contribution to our understanding of colonisation and the end of empire.

Author : Robin Alan Butlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1149334985

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Author : Anne Godlewska,Neil Smith
Publisher : Oxford : Blackwell
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0631193847

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Geography and Empire by Anne Godlewska,Neil Smith Pdf

Geography and Empire re-examines the role of geography in imperialism and reinterprets the geography of empire. It brings together new work by eighteen geographers from ten countries. The book is divided into five parts. Part I considers the early engagement of geographers with the imperial adventures of England and France. Part II focuses on the links between nineteenth-century European imperial expansion and the establishment of the first geographical institutions. Part III examines the rhetoric of geographical description and theory - the climatic determinism that reduced the population of half the world to idle degenerates, and the geopolitics that elevated a small part of the rest to be their rulers. Part IV is concerned with the active role of geographers in imperial administration and planning, and with the beginnings of a critical perspective on imperial ambition. Part V describes the experience of decolonization and of post-colonialism - the ambiguous role of the USA in the former, the difficulties of finding a true voice for the latter. Geography and Empire provides new insights and vivid perspectives not only on the development of the profession and discipline of geography, but on the interactions between individuals, ideas, events and movements - and, most notably, on what happens when one culture invades and attempts to dominate another. It concludes with notes for further reading, a comprehensive bibliography and a full index.

Author : Bruce McLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521660793

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The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580-1745 by Bruce McLeod Pdf

This 1999 book is an ambitious exploration of the adventure and geography of empire in the works of English writers.

Author : Neil Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520243385

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American Empire by Neil Smith Pdf

Annotation American Empire challenges our deepest assumptions about the rise of American globalism in the twentieth century and puts geography back into the History of what is called the American Century.

Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Adventure stories, Australian
ISBN : 0415137713

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Mapping Men and Empire by Richard Phillips Pdf

Author : Michael M. Roche
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351963299

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(Dis)Placing Empire by Michael M. Roche Pdf

While there has been for the past two decades a lively and extensive academic debate about postcolonial representations of imperialism and colonialism, there has been little work which focuses on 'placed' materialist or critical geographical perspectives. The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire. Illustrated with case studies of British colonialism in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland and New Zealand in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book uncovers the complex and unstable spaces of meaning which were central to the experience of emigrants, settlers, expatriates and indigenous peoples at different time/place moments under British rule. In critically examining place and hybridity within a discursive context, (Dis)placing Empire offers new insights into the practice of Empire.

Author : Richard Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135636562

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Mapping Men and Empire by Richard Phillips Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253031594

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Geographies of an Imperial Power by Jeremy Black Pdf

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 railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.

Author : Jane M. Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134810840

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Edge of Empire by Jane M. Jacobs Pdf

Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism and postcolonialism as manifest in modern society. From London, the one-time heart of the empire, to Perth and Brisbane, scenes of Aboriginal claims for the sacred in the space of the modern city, Jacobs emphasises the global geography of the local and unravels the spatialised cultural politics of postcolonial processes. Edge of Empire forms the basis for understanding imperialism over space and time, and is a recognition of the unruly spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present.

Author : CharmaineA. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351548533

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Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica by CharmaineA. Nelson Pdf

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.

Author : Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387992

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Haunted by Empire by Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the intimate” in the consolidation of colonial power. They demonstrate how the categories of difference underlying colonialism—the distinctions advanced as the justification for the colonizer’s rule of the colonized—were enacted and reinforced in intimate realms from the bedroom to the classroom to the medical examining room. Together the essays focus attention on the politics of comparison—on how colonizers differentiated one group or set of behaviors from another—and on the circulation of knowledge and ideologies within and between imperial projects. Ultimately, this collection forces a rethinking of what historians choose to compare and of the epistemological grounds on which those choices are based. Haunted by Empire includes Ann Laura Stoler’s seminal essay “Tense and Tender Ties” as well as her bold introduction, which carves out the exciting new analytic and methodological ground animated by this comparative venture. The contributors engage in a lively cross-disciplinary conversation, drawing on history, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and public health. They address such topics as the regulation of Hindu marriages and gay sexuality in the early-twentieth-century United States; the framing of multiple-choice intelligence tests; the deeply entangled histories of Asian, African, and native peoples in the Americas; the racial categorizations used in the 1890 U.S. census; and the politics of race and space in French colonial New Orleans. Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, and Nancy F. Cott each provide a concluding essay reflecting on the innovations and implications of the arguments advanced in Haunted by Empire. Contributors. Warwick Anderson, Laura Briggs, Kathleen Brown, Nancy F. Cott, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Linda Gordon, Catherine Hall, Martha Hodes, Paul A. Kramer, Lisa Lowe, Tiya Miles, Gwenn A. Miller, Emily S. Rosenberg, Damon Salesa, Nayan Shah, Alexandra Minna Stern, Ann Laura Stoler, Laura Wexler

Author : Felix Driver
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631201122

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Geography Militant by Felix Driver Pdf

Geography Militant is a compelling account of the relations between geographical knowledge, exploration and empire.

Author : Morag Bell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 0719039347

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Geography and Imperialism, 1820-1940 by Morag Bell Pdf

An examination of how European imperialism was facilitated and challenged from 1820 to 1920. With reference to geographical science, the authors add to multi-disciplinary debates on the complex cultural, ideological and intellectual bases of European imper

Author : Jean Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000029598

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Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire by Jean Fernandez Pdf

In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830, shaped the spatial imagination of Victorians, with profound consequences for the novel of empire. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire examines Presidential Addresses and reports of the Royal Geographical Society, and demonstrates how geographical studies by explorers, cartographers, ethnologists, medical topographers, administrators, and missionaries published by the RGS, local geographical societies, or the colonial state, acquired relevance for Victorian fiction’s response to the British Empire. Through a series of illuminating readings of literary works by R.L. Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Flora Annie Steel, Winwood Reade, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling, the study demonstrates how nineteenth-century fiction, published between 1870 and 1901, reflected and interrogated geographical discourses of the time. The study makes the case for the significance of physical and human geography for literary studies, and the unique historical and aesthetic insights gained through this approach.