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British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn't

Autor Professor Bernard Porter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 oct 2015
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle East. In this provocative book, Bernard Porter argues that many of these judgments arise from some fundamental misreadings of the nature, causes and effects of British imperialism, which was a more complex, ambivalent and in some ways accidental phenomenon than it is often taken to be. Drawing on his fifty years' experience of research and writing on the subject, Porter aims to clear away many of the misconceptions that surround the story of the British Empire's rise, governance and fall; and to point some ways to a fairer (though not necessarily more favourable) assessment of it. He addresses the connections of imperialism with capitalism, racism and British domestic culture, and ends with some reflections on the modern repercussions of both the Empire itself, and the myths which have sprung up around it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784534455
ISBN-10: 1784534455
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 146 x 218 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction

Hybridity

Riding the Beast

Imperialisms, Left and Right

In the Field

How it Happened. Broadly.

The Empire at Home

The Beginning of the End

Legacies

Conclusions
Endnotes and Bibliography