Imperial Culture And Colonial Projects

Author : Diogo Ramada Curto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207071

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Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects by Diogo Ramada Curto Pdf

Beyond the immeasurable political and economic changes it brought, colonial expansion exerted a powerful effect on Portuguese culture. And as this book demonstrates, the imperial culture that emerged over the course of four centuries was hardly a homogeneous whole, as triumphalist literature and other cultural forms mingled with recurrent doubts about the expansionist project. In a series of illuminating case studies, Ramada Curto follows the history and perception of major colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Author : Caroline Ritter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520976283

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Imperial Encore by Caroline Ritter Pdf

In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain’s imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses. Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980s—the half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutions—the British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Press—integrated their work with British imperial aims, and continued this project well after the end of formal British rule. Tracing these institutions and the media they produced through the tumultuous period of decolonization and its aftermath, Ritter offers the first account of the global footprint of British cultural imperialism.

Author : Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0520206053

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Tensions of Empire by Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

"Carrying the inquiry into zones previous itineraries have typically avoided—the creation of races, sexual relations, invention of tradition, and regional rulers' strategies for dealing with the conquerors—the book brings out features of European expansion and contraction we have not seen well before."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "What is important about this book is its commitment to shaping theory through the careful interpretation of grounded, empirically-based historical and ethnographic studies. . . . By far the best collection I have seen on the subject."—Sherry B. Ortner, Columbia University

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
ISBN : MINN:30000002839409

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Current Industrial Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Silvia Nagy-Zekmi,Chantal J. Zabus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0739131761

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Colonization Or Globalization? by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi,Chantal J. Zabus Pdf

This book presents new scholarship on the subject of imperial expansion through colonization and globalization from a variety of postcolonial perspectives. The chapters in this volume, grouped in three sections, scrutinize imperial expansion within the context of national identities and imageries-deconstructing the modernist and utopian idea of a nation as a site of homogeneity, and reviewing the importance of the concept in the different phases of colonization. Hence the first section, entitled Neo-Imperial Traces or Premonitions in Modernism. The postclassical phase of colonialism is examined through the representation of the colonized and the once-colonized. Applying postcolonial theories and often moving beyond them, scholars scrutinize such textual and filmic representations as exemplified in Asia. These make up section 2, Interference of the Imperial Tradition in Asia, which allows for the rearticulations of cultural heritage in the region within the different and ever-renewed schemes of imperial expansion Section 3, Reformulations of the Imperial Project, seeks to explore the questions surrounding inclusion in, and exclusion from, the realm of power as the founding principle of empire, suggesting that they are discursive and deliberate. Postcolonial societies inherit the trauma of colonialism that subjected people to a cultural displacement that is exacerbated by renewed efforts of imperial Influence through globalization. Book jacket.

Author : Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520918085

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Tensions of Empire by Frederick Cooper,Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which "civilizing missions" in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of "the colonized," it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

Author : Robert Aldrich,Kirsten McKenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0415639875

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The Routledge History of Western Empires by Robert Aldrich,Kirsten McKenzie Pdf

The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and thematic perspective. The 36 chapters by an international range of contributors, build on authors' original research to present case studies that are then broadened to examine general themes in the history of colonialism, thus providing grounded examples of important topics while opening out discussion to comparative and theoretical considerations. Divided into six sections the volumes focuses on a number of different themes, controversies, imperial powers, and geographical areas as and when they become prominent within a global context. And covering periods from the Roman Empire to decolonization the volume is divided into six sections: The Imperial Project and ideas of Empire Regions of Empire People of Empire Imperial Sciences Imperial Culture Decolonisation and After. With an introduction that explores two themes: why did the Europeans conquer colonies and how the colonial past has been studied, this is the perfect guide for all students of imperial history.

Author : T. J. Barringer,Tom Flynn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415157765

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Colonialism and the Object by T. J. Barringer,Tom Flynn Pdf

Drawing together intensive case studies from an international group of scholars, the editors explore the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation.

Author : Philip Dwyer,Amanda Nettelbeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319629230

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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World by Philip Dwyer,Amanda Nettelbeck Pdf

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire. Bringing together scholars from around the world, the book includes chapters on British, French, Dutch, Italian and Japanese colonies and conquests. It considers multiple experiences of colonial violence, ranging from political dispute to the non-lethal violence of everyday colonialism and the symbolic repression inherent in colonial practices and hierarchies. These comparative case studies show how violence was used to assert and maintain control in the colonies, contesting the long held view that the colonial project was of benefit to colonised peoples.

Author : Supriya Chaudhuri,Josephine McDonagh,Brian H. Murray,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351620000

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Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World by Supriya Chaudhuri,Josephine McDonagh,Brian H. Murray,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Pdf

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and indigenous cultures in dramatic and often violent ways. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851–1914. By focusing on episodes in the social and cultural lives of commodities, it explores some of the ways in which commodities shaped the colonial cultures of global modernity. Chapters by experts in the field examine the production, circulation, display and representation of commodities in various regional and national contexts, and draw on a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches. An integrated, coherent and urgent response to a number of key debates in postcolonial and Victorian studies, world literature and imperial history, this book will be of interest to researchers with interests in migration, commodity culture, colonial history and transnational networks of print and ideas.

Author : Brad Beaven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526106698

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Visions of Empire by Brad Beaven Pdf

This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography.

Author : Ashley L. Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255690

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The Global Indies by Ashley L. Cohen Pdf

A study of British imperialism’s imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policyIn this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. She also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. Close-reading a mixed archive of plays, poems, travel narratives, parliamentary speeches, political pamphlets, visual satires, paintings, memoirs, manuscript letters, and diaries, Cohen reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, Cohen demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world.

Author : Ann Laura Stoler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0520231112

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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power by Ann Laura Stoler Pdf

Looking at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context, this text proposes that 'cultural racism' in fact predates its postmodern discovery.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658

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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said Pdf

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author : Max Jones,Berny Sèbe,Bertrand Taithe,Peter Yeandle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317270119

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Decolonising Imperial Heroes by Max Jones,Berny Sèbe,Bertrand Taithe,Peter Yeandle Pdf

The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the ‘decolonisation’ of imperial heroes was a much more complex and protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the world has ceased to be ‘painted in red’. Whilst Decolonising Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state actors, in a process we call ‘the privatisation of heroes’, the book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.