The imperial history wars : debating the British Empire /

"The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a wide-ranging asse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, Dane Keith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Temas:
Imperialism > History.
Imperialism > Historiography.
Postcolonialism > History.
Postcolonialism > Historiography.
History, Modern > Historiography.
Impérialisme > Histoire.
Impérialisme > Historiographie.
Postcolonialisme > Histoire.
Postcolonialisme > Historiographie.
Histoire moderne et contemporaine > Historiographie.
General & world history.
Colonialism & imperialism.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
British colonies.
Historiography.
Imperialism.
Postcolonialism.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Historiographie.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imperial history and postcolonial theory
  • The boundaries of Oxford's empire
  • Imperial history and postcolonial studies revisited
  • Exploration and empire
  • The white man's world
  • Debating the end of empire: exceptionalism and its critics
  • On the American empire from a British imperial perspective
  • The means and ends of empire
  • The imperial history wars
  • Does British history matter anymore?: Reflections on the age of Brexit and Trump.

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