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Author : Chikara Hashimoto
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474410472
A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema
Author : Bruce Gilley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684512171
"The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101498347
From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collapse, occupation, civil war, or any of the ideological conflicts of inter-war Europe. Nevertheless, the modern era?s promise of progress was overshadowed by a looming sense of decay and death that would deeply influence creative production and public argument between the wars. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization? and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future.
Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774850667
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 : Calder Walton
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1468309463
Against the looming specter of Soviet subversion in Britain's colonial possessions, the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but unseen role in passing power to newly independent national states across the globe.
Author : B. Grob-Fitzgibbon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230300385
In this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Grob-Fitzgibbon reveals that the British government developed a successful strategy of decolonization following the Second World War based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth.
Author : G. Gordon Betts
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412840538
A study of the erosion of Britain's sovereignty, national identity and culture, the subversion of her history and traditions, and the demoralization of her institutions. The process began, argues G. Gordon Betts, with the end of the colonial empires.
Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774851299
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 : Ian Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784081119
AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus – once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube – believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline. Here he must face the barbarians beyond Hadrian's Wall, in a mission riven with bloodshed and treachery. Can Castus keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help? And is anything about this doomed enterprise what it seems? War at the Edge of the World is the epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.
Author : Clement Attlee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258162849
Author : Barbara N. Ramusack
Publisher : Columbus : Published for the University of Cincinnati by the Ohio State University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000906183
Author : CHIKARA. HASHIMOTO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474438415
Author : William Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anti-Jewish propaganda
ISBN : UOM:39015029107698
Twilight Over England was written by William Joyce in early 1940; that is, shortly after Britain's declaration of war against Germany. More commonly known as Lord Haw-Haw, the British 'traitor' who worked for German radio, there was much more to Joyce than the character portrayed by Allied propaganda and post-war vengeance. Here Joyce explains his conception of a specifically British National Socialism, his commitment to Crown and Empire, and the history of England's takeover by international finance, the real enemy of all nations. He shows in a manner very relevant to the present, the ways by which the international bankers work, why they forced a war on Germany, and the development of Free Trade capitalism, the system that has continued to intrude on every corner of the world with ever more aggression since its victory in 1945. The charges of treason and his hanging are considered against the fact that he was never a British citizen, and the legality of his execution remains highly contentious. A thorough introduction by Kerry Bolton backgrounds Joyce's life, and reveal the courage, honour, humanity and idealism of Joyce's character.
Author : Sir Gawain Bell
Publisher : Lester Crook Academic Pub.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051425307
This text looks at colonial administration in the British colonies.