The Imperial Idea and its Enemies
Author | : A P Thornton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1985-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349178675 |
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Author | : A P Thornton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1985-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349178675 |
Author | : Brett Bowden |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226068161 |
The term “civilization” comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as “civilized”—or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes “civilization” as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquests—as well as those peoples and places excluded or swept aside—undertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the “West and the rest” have more commonalities than differences,this provocative and engaging bookultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.
Author | : Brett Bowden |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459605721 |
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, ..
Author | : Krishan Kumar |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691192804 |
"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present
Author | : Wendell Cranston Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Rome |
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Author | : Archibald Paton Thornton |
Publisher | : London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : C. McArthur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Sir William Mitchell Ramsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : David Armitage |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521789783 |
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.
Author | : Duncan Bell |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2011-04-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691151164 |
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and southern Africa. In The Idea of Greater Britain, Duncan Bell analyzes this fertile yet neglected debate, examining how a wide range of thinkers conceived of this vast "Anglo-Saxon" political community. Their proposals ranged from the fantastically ambitious--creating a globe-spanning nation-state--to the practical and mundane--reinforcing existing ties between the colonies and Britain. But all of these ideas were motivated by the disquiet generated by democracy, by challenges to British global supremacy, and by new possibilities for global cooperation and communication that anticipated today's globalization debates. Exploring attitudes toward the state, race, space, nationality, and empire, as well as highlighting the vital theoretical functions played by visions of Greece, Rome, and the United States, Bell illuminates important aspects of late-Victorian political thought and intellectual life.