Imperial Britain

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300189186

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Macaulay and Son by Catherine Hall Pdf

Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.

Author : Christian Høgsbjerg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376965

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C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Høgsbjerg Pdf

C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. It reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James's intellectual and political trajectory. During this time, James turned from liberal humanism to revolutionary socialism. Rejecting the "imperial Britishness" he had absorbed growing up in a crown colony in the British West Indies, he became a leading anticolonial activist and Pan-Africanist thinker. Christian Høgsbjerg reconstructs the circumstances and milieus in which James wrote works including his magisterial study The Black Jacobins. First published in 1938, James's examination of the dynamics of anticolonial revolution in Haiti continues to influence scholarship on Atlantic slavery and abolition. Høgsbjerg contends that during the Depression C. L. R. James advanced public understanding of the African diaspora and emerged as one of the most significant and creative revolutionary Marxists in Britain.

Author : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882527

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Imperial Britain by Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic, demographic, intellectual and military influences and he shows how parliamentary and party opinion interacted with imperial ideas and interests in the country at large. This is a major new book which explores the ideology of key imperial campaigns, and their popular support. It makes a critical contribution to recent debates -- about the importance of empire to the nature and development of British national identities before and after the First World War.

Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Janet C. Myers,Deirdre H. McMahon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134797189

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The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain by Janet C. Myers,Deirdre H. McMahon Pdf

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home décor”the essays in this collection share a common focus on materiality, the nitty-gritty elements that helped give shape and meaning to British self-definition during the period. Each essay demonstrates how preoccupations with common household goods and habits fueled contemporary debates about cultural institutions ranging from personal matters of marriage and family to more overtly political issues of empire building. While existing scholarship on material culture in the nineteenth century has centered on artifacts in museums and galleries, this collection brings together disparate fields”history of design, landscape history, childhood studies, and feminist and postcolonial literary studies”to focus on ordinary objects and practices, with specific attention to how Britons of all classes established the tenets of domesticity as central to individual happiness, national security, and imperial hegemony.

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674034266

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The Scandal of Empire by Nicholas B. Dirks Pdf

Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by Edmund Burke, it brought the Company’s exploits to the attention of the public. Through the trial and after, the British government transformed public understanding of the Company’s corrupt actions by creating an image of a vulnerable India that needed British assistance. Intrusive behavior was recast as a civilizing mission. In this fascinating, and devastating, account of the scandal that laid the foundation of the British Empire, Nicholas Dirks explains how this substitution of imperial authority for Company rule helped erase the dirty origins of empire and justify the British presence in India. The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England’s development in the eighteenth century and beyond. We see how mercantile trade was inextricably linked with imperial venture and scandalous excess and how these three things provided the ideological basis for far-flung British expansion. In this powerfully written and trenchant critique, Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.

Author : Peter James Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
ISBN : WISC:89055508410

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Imperial Britain by Peter James Marshall Pdf

Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
ISBN : 0333577582

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Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914 by Ronald Hyam Pdf

Provides a comprehensive chronological narrative of the history of the British Empire between 1815 and 1914, together with a more theoretical and reflective concluding chapter, thus giving an overview of British policy and action which takes account of the many factors underlying British expansion.

Author : Richard Drayton,Richard Harry Drayton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300059760

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Nature's Government by Richard Drayton,Richard Harry Drayton Pdf

This daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the 20th century, led to complex kinds of knowledge.

Author : Timothy Parsons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0847688259

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The British Imperial Century, 1815-1914 by Timothy Parsons Pdf

Focusing on the transition from informal to formal empire which broadened and intensified Britain's relations with Asia and Africa, Timothy Parsons describes the establishment of extensive colonies and protectorates in Egypt, India, China, and the Ottoman Empire. Parsons explores the cultural, political, economic, and social implications of British authority in these areas and he describes the various ways in which subject peoples contested and adapted to the expansion of the British Crown. --From publisher's description.

Author : Radhika Mohanram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0816647801

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Imperial White by Radhika Mohanram Pdf

Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meanings to--what it meant to be British. Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity? Does heterosexuality have a color? And does domestic race differ from colonial race? In addition to these inquiries on the issues of race, class, and sexuality, Mohanram effectively applies the methods of whiteness studies to British imperial material culture to critically racialize the relationship between the metropole and the peripheral colonies. Considering whether whiteness, like theory, can travel, Mohanram also provides a new perspective on white diaspora, a phenomenon of the nineteenth century that has been largely absent in diaspora studies, ultimately rereading--and rethinking--British imperial whiteness. Radhika Mohanram teaches postcolonial cultural studies in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Black Body: Women, Colonialism, Space (Minnesota, 1999) and edits the journal Social Semiotics.

Author : Andrew S. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882534

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Imperial Britain by Andrew S. Thompson Pdf

This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic, demographic, intellectual and military influences and he shows how parliamentary and party opinion interacted with imperial ideas and interests in the country at large. This is a major new book which explores the ideology of key imperial campaigns, and their popular support. It makes a critical contribution to recent debates -- about the importance of empire to the nature and development of British national identities before and after the First World War.

Author : Robert Burroughs
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802079067

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Black Students in Imperial Britain by Robert Burroughs Pdf

This book caters for the demand in new black histories by rediscovering several little-known Black people’s experiences in late-Victorian Britain. It centres on The African Institute of Colwyn Bay, or ‘Congo House’, at which almost 90 children and young adults from Africa and its diaspora were enrolled to train as missionaries between 1889 and 1911. Burroughs finds that, though their encounters in Britain were shaped by the racism and paternalism of the late-nineteenth-century civilising mission, the students were not simply the objects of British charity. They were also agents in a culture of evangelical humanitarianism. Some were fully absorbed in the civilising mission, becoming leading missionaries. Others adapted their experiences to new ends, participating in networks of pan-Africanism that questioned race prejudice and colonialism. In their negotiations of the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the empire, the students of Congo House reveal how the global currents of black history shaped the localised cultures of Victorian philanthropy. From racism to pan-Africanism, this study sheds new light on key issues in black British history.

Author : J. Burkett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137008916

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Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, 'Race' and the Radical Left in the 1960s by J. Burkett Pdf

The end of empire shaped the way the British public saw their place in the world, society and the ethnic and racial boundaries of their nation. Focussing on some of the most controversial organisations of the 1960s, this book illuminates their central importance in constructing post-imperial Britain.

Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349227846

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Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914 by Ronald Hyam Pdf

Provides a comprehensive chronological narrative of the history of the British Empire between 1815 and 1914, together with a more theoretical and reflective concluding chapter, thus giving an overview of British policy and action which takes account of the many factors underlying British expansion.