Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion Britain, 1880-1940 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Behm, Amanda (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Θέματα: Imperialism.; World history.; World politics.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Political History.

Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-c...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: British imperial history and its antecedents
• Chapter 2: Breaking up the British Empire
• Chapter 3: Historical racism between page and practice, 1880-1900
• Chapter 4:History as institution: the battle for the new 'imperial'
• Chapter 5: Empire in opposition: the stakes of history and the rise of anticolonial nationalism
• Chapter 6: Empire, history, and the Great War
• Chapter 7: The Third British Empire
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.