Problems Of Empire

Author : Antoinette M. Burton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199936601

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The Trouble with Empire by Antoinette M. Burton Pdf

While imperial blockbusters fly off the shelves, there is no comprehensive history dedicated to resistance in the 19th and 20th century British Empire. The Trouble with Empire is the first volume to fill this gap, offering a brief but thorough introduction to the nature and consequences of resistance to British imperialism. Historian Antoinette Burton's study spans the 19th and 20th centuries, when discontented subjects of empire made their unhappiness felt from Ireland to Canada to India to Africa to Australasia, in direct response to incursions of military might and imperial capitalism. The Trouble with Empire offers the first thoroughgoing account of what British imperialism looked like from below and of how tenuous its hold on alien populations was throughout its long, unstable life. By taking the long view, moving across a variety of geopolitical sites and spanning the whole of the period 1840-1955, Burton examines the commonalities between different forms of resistance and unveils the structural weaknesses of the British Empire.0.

Author : P. J. Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351121583

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Problems of Empire by P. J. Marshall Pdf

This book, first published in 1968, is a study of the impact made on Britain by the conquest of large parts of India in the second half of the eighteenth century. The sudden success of the East India Company in subjugating a vast population with a sophisticated civilization created problems of an unprecedented kind for Britain. It raised in an acute form questions about the scope and limits of state action, the rights of chartered bodies, the duties of conquerors to subject peoples, the appropriateness of exporting western ideals and concepts of law and government to Asia, and the manner in which the resources of the East could best contribute to Britain's power and wealth. These and similar topics were discussed at length in Parliament, the press, books and pamphlets, and in the correspondence of private individuals. A selection of this material, drawing on a wide and varied range of printed and manuscript sources, has been made to illustrate the arguments used in this debate and the manner in which solutions to some of the problems were gradually worked out over a period of more than fifty years. By 1813, after much trial and error, the outline of the political, administrative and economic links which were to bind India to Britain for much of the nineteenth century are already visible.

Author : T. A. Brassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417568906

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Problems of Empire: Papers and Addresses by T. A. Brassey Pdf

Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1181014160

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Problems of Empire; Papers and Addresses by Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey Pdf

Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415155193

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Problems of Empire by Patrick J. N. Tuck Pdf

Author : S. Karly Kehoe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487541088

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Empire and Emancipation by S. Karly Kehoe Pdf

Drawing upon the experiences of Scottish and Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad, Empire and Emancipation sheds important new light on the complex relationship between Catholicism and the British Empire.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : UOM:39015010835265

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The Empire and the Century by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958513

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Empire by Niall Ferguson Pdf

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Author : Peter James Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:08122665

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Problems of Empire: Britain and India 1757-1813 by Peter James Marshall Pdf

Author : Thomas Allnutt Brassey
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340963817

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Problems of Empire by Thomas Allnutt Brassey Pdf

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Author : T. A. Earl Brassey
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347170901

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Problems of Empire by T. A. Earl Brassey Pdf

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Author : Thomas Allnutt BRASSEY (Earl Brassey.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:776521699

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Problems of Empire: Papers and Addresses. [With a Preface by George R. Parkin.]. by Thomas Allnutt BRASSEY (Earl Brassey.) Pdf

Author : Thomas Brassey Brassey
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340341506

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Problems of Empire; Papers and Addresses by Thomas Brassey Brassey Pdf

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Author : T. a. (Thomas Allnutt) Earl Brassey, 1.
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373621826

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PROBLEMS OF EMPIRE by T. a. (Thomas Allnutt) Earl Brassey, 1. Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.