The Ends Of Empire

Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774850667

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Canada and the End of Empire by Phillip Buckner Pdf

Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in “a fit of absence of mind.” Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history – the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suez crisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions in maintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism.

Author : Brian Lapping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : 0246119691

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End of Empire by Brian Lapping Pdf

Author : Martin Thomas,Andrew Thompson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198713197

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The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire by Martin Thomas,Andrew Thompson Pdf

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.

Author : Eric Hinderaker,Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801871379

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At the Edge of Empire by Eric Hinderaker,Peter C. Mancall Pdf

During the 17th century, the Western border region of North America which existed just beyond the British imperial reach became an area of opportunity, intrigue and conflict for the diverse peoples - Europeans and Indians alike - who lived there. This book examines the complex society there.

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0719060486

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British Culture and the End of Empire by Stuart Ward Pdf

The demise of the British Empire in the three decades following the Second World War is a theme that has been well traversed in studies of post-war British politics, economics and foreign relations. Yet there has been strikingly little attention to the question of how these dramatic changes in Britain's relationships with the wider world were reflected in British culture. This volume addresses this central issue, arguing that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture.

Author : Alfred William Brian Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199267898

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Human Rights and the End of Empire by Alfred William Brian Simpson Pdf

The European Convention on Human Rights of 1950 established the most effective international system of human rights protection ever created. This is the first book that gives a comprehensive account of how it came into existence, of the part played in its genesis by the British government, and of its significance for Britain in the period between 1953 and 1966.

Author : Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1563243695

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The End of Empire? by Karen Dawisha,Bruce Parrott Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Uther Charlton-Stevens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197676516

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Anglo-India and the End of Empire by Uther Charlton-Stevens Pdf

The standard image of the Raj is of an aloof, pampered and prejudiced British elite lording it over an oppressed and hostile Indian subject population. Like most caricatures, this obscures as much truth as it reveals. The British had not always been so aloof. The earlier, more cosmopolitan period of East India Company rule saw abundant 'interracial' sex and occasional marriage, alongside greater cultural openness and exchange. The result was a large and growing 'mixed-race' community, known by the early twentieth century as Anglo-Indians. Notwithstanding its faults, Empire could never have been maintained without the active, sometimes enthusiastic, support of many colonial subjects. These included Indian elites, professionals, civil servants, businesspeople and minority groups of all kinds, who flourished under the patronage of the imperial state, and could be used in a 'divide and rule' strategy to prolong colonial rule. Independence was profoundly unsettling to those destined to become minorities in the new nation, and the Anglo-Indians were no exception. This refreshing account looks at the dramatic end of British rule in India through Anglo-Indian eyes, a perspective that is neither colonial apologia nor nationalist polemic. Its history resonates strikingly with the complex identity debates of the twenty-first century.

Author : Sabine Clarke
Publisher : Studies in Imperialism
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1526131382

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Science at the End of Empire by Sabine Clarke Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This is the first account of Britain's plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies - something that historians have usually said Britain never contemplated. It shows that Britain's remedy to the poor economic conditions in the Caribbean gave a key role to laboratory research to re-invent sugarcane as the raw material for making fuels, plastics and drugs. Science at the end of empire explores the practical and also political functions of scientific research and economic advisors for Britain at a moment in which Caribbean governments operated with increasing autonomy and the US was intent on expanding its influence in the region. Britain's preferred path to industrial development was threatened by an alternative promoted through the Caribbean Commission. The provision of knowledge and expertise became key routes by which Britain and America competed to shape the future of the region, and their place in it.

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425713

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Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff Pdf

In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

Author : Rachael Gilmour,Bill Schwarz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781784991791

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End of empire and the English novel since 1945 by Rachael Gilmour,Bill Schwarz Pdf

Available in paperback for the first time, this first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the privileged location of the novel for discussing what decolonization meant for the domestic English population of the metropole. The book is written in an easy style, unburdened by large sections of abstract reflection. It endeavours to bring alive in a new way the traditions of the English novel.

Author : Ian W. Campbell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501707896

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Knowledge and the Ends of Empire by Ian W. Campbell Pdf

In Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratic views on whether the steppe was to be Muslim or secular, whether it should be a center of stock-raising or of agriculture, and the extent to which local institutions needed to give way to imperial institutions. It was when the tsarist state was most confident in its knowledge of the steppe that it committed its gravest errors by alienating Kazak intermediaries and placing unbearable stresses on pastoral nomads. From the 1890s on, when the dominant visions in St. Petersburg were of large-scale peasant colonization of the steppe and its transformation into a hearth of sedentary agriculture, the same local knowledge that Kazaks had used to negotiate tsarist rule was transformed into a language of resistance.

Author : John Connell,Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811559051

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The Ends of Empire by John Connell,Robert Aldrich Pdf

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Ranging from Greenland to Gibraltar, the Falklands to the Faroes, and encompassing islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the Caribbean, these territories command attention because of their unique status, and for the ways that they occasionally become flashpoints for rival international claims, dubious financial activities, illegal migration and clashes between metropolitan and local mores. Connell and Aldrich argue that a negotiated dependency brings greater benefits to these territories than might independence.

Author : Priya Jaikumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822337932

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Cinema at the End of Empire by Priya Jaikumar Pdf

DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s./div

Author : Sarah Stockwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107070318

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The British End of the British Empire by Sarah Stockwell Pdf

The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.