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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies
by Herman LebovicsIn this important volume, Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France, develops a historical argument with striking contemporary relevance: empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. These essays, which Lebovics wrote over the past decade, demonstrate the impressive intellectual range of his work. Focusing primarily on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom, he shows how empire and its repercussions have pervaded--and corroded--Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.Some essays explore why modern Western democratic societies needed colonialism. Among these is an examination of the seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke's prescient conclusion that liberalism could only control democratic forces with the promise of greater wealth enabled by empire. In other essays Lebovics considers the relation between overseas rule and domestic life. Discussing George Orwell's tale "Shooting an Elephant" and the careers of two colonial officers (one British and one French), he contemplates the ruinous authoritarianism that develops among the administrators of empire. Lebovics considers Pierre Bourdieu's thinking about how colonialism affected metropolitan French life, and he reflects on the split between sociology and ethnology, which was partly based on a desire among intellectuals to think one way about metropolitan populations and another about colonial subjects. Turning to the arts, Lebovics traces how modernists used the colonial "exotic" to escape the politicized and contested modernity of the urban West. Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies is a compelling case for cultural history as a key tool for understanding the injurious effects of imperialism and its present-day manifestations within globalization.
Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
by Tania Gentic Francisco Larubia-PradoThe essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.
Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations
by William Bowman Frank Chiteji J. Megan GreeneImperialism in the Modern World combines narrative, primary and secondary sources, and visual documents to examine global relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The three co-editors, Professors Bowman, Chiteji, and Greene, have taught for many years global history classes in a variety of institutions. They wrote Imperialism in the Modern World to solve the problem of allowing teachers to combine primary and secondary texts easily and systematically to follow major themes in global history (some readers use primary materials exclusively. Some focus on secondary arguments). This book is more focused than other readers on the markets for those teachers who are offering more specialized world history courses - one important trend in global history is away from simply trying to cover everything to teaching real connections in more chronologically and thematically focused courses. The reader also provides a genuine diversity of global perspectives and invites students to study seriously world history from a critical framework. Too many readers offer a smorgasbord approach to world history that leaves students dazed and confused. This reader avoids that approach and will therefore solve many problems that teachers have in constructing and teaching world history courses at the introductory or upper-division levels. The reader will allow show students how to read historical documents through a hands-on demonstration in the introduction. The book also incorporates images as visual documents. Finally, the book conceives of global history in the widest possible terms; it contains pieces on political, diplomatic, economic, and military history, to be sure, but it also has selections on technology, medicine, women, the environment, social changes, and cultural patterns. Other readers can not match this text's breadth because they are chronologically and thematically so extended.
Imperialism with Reference to Syria (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)
by Ali KadriThis extended essay investigates the meaning of imperialism in Syria, providing a valuable addition to the ongoing debate on the Syrian crisis through the lens of imperialism, modern warfare, and geopolitics. It offers a detailed analysis of how the Syrian war has been the product of imperialist ambitions. The author begins by situating the Syrian conflict in the regional historical continuum, positing that the modern imperialist war visited upon Syria is both a production domain intrinsic to capital, and an application of the law of value assuming a highly destructive form. Such processes, particularly the measure of war as a component of accumulation by waste and militarism, are peculiar to the imperialism of the United States, which the author argues is the sole imperialist power at play in Syria, and globally. With so many international forces vying with one another in this country, and some prominent Western scholars equally ascribing imperialism to the US, Russia and China, defining “who the imperialist is” can help to clear some of the fog in the war of positions, as a misplaced or ideologically motivated assessment can provide the wrong party with a justification for prolonging the war. This book will be of interest to academics in the social sciences and Middle Eastern studies, but will also appeal to all readers with an interest in patterns of global development, postcolonialism and neoliberal imperialism.
Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans 1860-1960
by Apollos O. NwauwaUsing British Colonial Office papers, the archives of colonial governments in Africa, and the writings of African nationalists, Dr Nwauwa examines the long history of the demand for the establishment of universities in Colonial Africa, to which the authorities finally agreed after World War II.
Imperialism, Evangelism and the Ottoman Armenians, 1878-1896
by Jeremy SaltFirst Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Imperialism, Health and Medicine (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)
by Vicente NavarroIncludes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.
Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire (Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology #2)
by David J. MattinglyDespite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of the Roman Empire and to hold a generally favorable view of Rome's impact on its subject peoples. Imperialism, Power, and Identity boldly challenges this view using insights from postcolonial studies of modern empires to offer a more nuanced understanding of Roman imperialism. Rejecting outdated notions about Romanization, David Mattingly focuses instead on the concept of identity to reveal a Roman society made up of far-flung populations whose experience of empire varied enormously. He examines the nature of power in Rome and the means by which the Roman state exploited the natural, mercantile, and human resources within its frontiers. Mattingly draws on his own archaeological work in Britain, Jordan, and North Africa and covers a broad range of topics, including sexual relations and violence; census-taking and taxation; mining and pollution; land and labor; and art and iconography. He shows how the lives of those under Rome's dominion were challenged, enhanced, or destroyed by the empire's power, and in doing so he redefines the meaning and significance of Rome in today's debates about globalization, power, and empire.Imperialism, Power, and Identity advances a new agenda for classical studies, one that views Roman rule from the perspective of the ruled and not just the rulers. In a new preface, Mattingly reflects on some of the reactions prompted by the initial publication of the book.
Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919-1945
by Barbara BushImperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora.Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.
Imperialism: A Study
by Riley QuinnEnglish economist John Hobson’s 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal, Hobson was deeply sceptical about the aims and claims of imperialistic thought at a time when Britain’s empire held sway over a vast portion of the globe. In order to critique what he saw as a falsely reasoned and immoral political view, Hobson’s book took a cuttingly analytical approach to the idea of imperialism – setting out to dissect and understand the arguments for empire before subjecting them to withering evaluation – a process that led him to the key insight that the then widely-accepted claim that imperialism was essentially a question of nationalism was, in fact, quite weak. Instead, Hobson’s close analysis of the implicit and hidden reasons for imperialist projects demonstrated that, at root, they were all products of capitalism. It became increasingly clear to him that imperialism was less a political ideology, and more the product of the urgent need to open up new markets and remedy economic stagnation at home. Deeply provocative at the time, Hobson’s book shows just how powerful the critical thinking skills of analysis and evaluation can be when applied to deconstruction of even the most widely accepted of ideas.
Imperialism: A Study (Routledge Revivals)
by J.A. HobsonOriginally published in 1902, this study expands on the ideas of imperialism which were a key focus of many countries in the early twentieth century, particularly in Great Britain. Hobson starts by outlining the economic origins of imperialism with an analysis on methodology and results, before delving into the theory and practice of Imperialism and its political significance at the turn of the century. This edition was first published in 1938 and was completely revised to reflect the changes that occurred in world history from first publication. This title will be of interest to students of Politics or History.
Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Volume I
by Peter J. CainFirst published in 2004. This is Volume I in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes part one on the Emergence of Imperialism as a Concept and part two, Early Marxist Theories and their Critics.
Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Volume II
by Peter J. Cain Mark HarrisonFirst published in 2004. This is Volume II in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes Part III on Modern Marxism and Dependency Theories and Part IV on Modern Historians and Imperialism.
Imperialism: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies Volume III
by Peter J. CainFirst published in 2004. This is Volume III in a collection on Imperialism, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies and includes PART V Cultural and ‘Postcolonial’ Critiques.
Imperialism: Part Two of The Origins of Totalitarianism (The Origins of Totalitarianism #2)
by Hannah ArendtIn the second volume of The Origins of Totalitarianism, the political theorist traces the decline of European colonialism and the outbreak of WWI. Since it was first published in 1951, The Origins of Totalitarianism has been recognized as the definitive philosophical account of the totalitarian mindset. A probing analysis of Nazism, Stalinism, and the &“banality of evil&”, it remains one of the most referenced works in studies and discussions of totalitarian movements around the world.In this second volume, Imperialism, Dr. Hannah Arendt examines the cruel epoch of declining European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of the First World War. Through portraits of Disraili, Cecil Rhodes, Gobineau, Proust, and T.E. Lawrence, Arendt illustrates how this era ended with the decline of the nation-state and the disintegration of Europe&’s class society. These two events, Arendt argues, generated totalitarianism, which in turn produced the Holocaust.&“The most original and profound—therefore the most valuable—political theorist of our times.&”—Dwight MacDonald, The New Leader
Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives #67)
by Nicola Kay BeiselMoral reform movements claiming to protect children began to emerge in the United States over a century ago, most notably when Anthony Comstock and his supporters crusaded to restrict the circulation of contraception, information on the sexual rights of women, and "obscene" art and literature. Much of their rhetoric influences debates on issues surrounding children and sexuality today. Drawing on Victorian accounts of pregnant girls, prostitutes, Free Lovers, and others deemed "immoral," Nicola Beisel argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. The rhetoric of morality, she maintains, is more than symbolic and goes beyond efforts to control mass behavior. For the Victorians, it tapped into the fear that their own children could fall prey to vice and ultimately live in disgrace. In a rare analysis of Anthony Comstock's crusade with the New York and New England Societies for the Suppression of Vice, Beisel examines how the reformer worked on the anxieties of the upper classes. One tactic was to link moral corruption with the flood of immigrants, which succeeded in New York and Boston, where minorities posed a political threat to the upper classes. Showing how a moral crusade can bring a society's diffuse anxieties to focus on specific sources, Beisel offers a fresh theoretical approach to moral reform movements.
Imperio
by Valerio Massimo ManfrediEl encuentro entre Aníbal y Escipión nueve años después de la batalla que dio la victoria a los romanos. El trágico y conmovedor episodio del delicado amor que unió al anciano Miguel Ángel con la poetisa Vittoria Colonna. Una misteriosa espada de oro protagonista de un relato de intriga a medio camino entre la arqueología y la política internacional. Un alfarero de la antigua Atenas, involuntario artífice de la condena del gran Alcibíades... Valerio Massimo Manfredi, autor de célebres novelas históricas, se aventura en el género del cuento, regalándonos estas trece joyas de la narrativa breve. Ya estén ambientados en la antigua Grecia o en el período de entreguerras, en las cortes renacentistas o en las aguas de la laguna veneciana de la actualidad, estas historias revelan la extraordinaria capacidad de Manfredi de volver la historia siempre actual. Y de revelarnos cómo, ya se trate de obreros o de célebres condotieros, el corazón del hombre permanece inmutable a través de los siglos, con sus pasiones, sus miserias y sus grandezas.
Imperios contra estados: La destrucción del orden internacional contemporáneo
by Carlos Alberto PatiñoUn análisis sobre el curso que está tomando la historia en el siglo XXI. Estamos frente a una contrarrevolución geopolítica. El mundo transita a un reequilibrio posguerra fría, a través de nuevas formas de conexión y acción en el que Occidente pierde poder. La revolución geopolítica del siglo XVIII ha empezado a tener una contrarrevolución que se presenta desde finales del siglo XX, y que ha ido marcando la ruta del siglo XXI: el resurgimiento del viejo mundo no occidental, que se expresa como el restablecimiento del equilibrio fracturado entre grandes Estados, imperios e incluso civilizaciones.
Imperios del mundo atlántico: España y Gran Bretaña en América (1492-1830)
by John H. ElliottEl relato definitivo de la épica colonización europea de las Américas. Durante siglos, españoles y británicos levantaron sus respectivos imperios coloniales en América sobre las ruinas de las civilizaciones que encontraron y destruyeron al llegar allí. En más de una ocasión los historiadores han comparado ambas experiencias. Sin embargo, este libro es el primero en el que se hace esa comparación de los imperios americanos de España y Gran Bretaña de una forma sistemática desde sus inicios hasta el final del dominio español en América a comienzos del siglo XIX. El prestigioso historiador John H. Elliott identifica y explica tanto las similitudes como las diferencias que se dieron en el proceso colonizador, en el carácter de las sociedades coloniales, en los estilos distintivos del gobierno imperial, y en el desarrollo de los movimientos que condujeron a la independencia. Elliott estudia cómo las estructuras políticas, económicas y sociales de la América española de la británica acabaron pareciéndose a pesar de los rasgos que las separaban, y cómo todavía influyen en la América del siglo XXI. Con el estilo claro pero riguroso que caracteriza al autor, se abordan aquí los temas fundamentales del fenómeno de la colonización: el interés por los imperios, en boga en la época; el ángulo comparativo (el imperio británico y el español, América del Norte y América del Sur); el encuentro imperial y la resistencia local. En conjunto, un análisis experto en el que se combina la investigación en profundidad con una narración de lectura apasionante.
Imperios del mundo atlántico: España y Gran Bretaña en América (1492-1830)
by John H. ElliottEl relato definitivo de la épica colonización europea de las Américas. Durante siglos, españoles y británicos levantaron sus respectivos imperios coloniales en América sobre las ruinas de las civilizaciones que encontraron y destruyeron al llegar allí. En más de una ocasión los historiadores han comparado ambas experiencias. Sin embargo, este libro es el primero en el que se hace esa comparación de los imperios americanos de España yGran Bretaña de una forma sistemática desde sus inicios hasta el final del dominio español en América a comienzos del siglo XIX. El prestigioso historiador John H. Elliott identifica y explica tanto las similitudes como las diferencias que se dieron en el proceso colonizador, en el carácter de las sociedades coloniales, en los estilos distintivos del gobierno imperial, y en el desarrollo de los movimientos que condujeron a la independencia. Elliott estudia cómo las estructuras políticas, económicas y sociales de la Américaespañola de la británica acabaron pareciéndose a pesar de los rasgos que las separaban, y cómo todavía influyen en la América del siglo XXI. Con el estilo claro pero riguroso que caracteriza al autor, se abordan aquí los temas fundamentales del fenómeno de la colonización: el interés por los imperios, en boga en la época; el ángulo comparativo (el imperio británico y el español, América del Norte yAmérica del Sur); el encuentro imperial y la resistencia local. En conjunto, un análisis experto en el que se combina la investigación en profundidad con una narración de lectura apasionante. Reseñas:«Magistral, meticulosamente investigada y elegantemente ejecutada. Identifica con brillante claridad las similitudes y diferencias entre la América británica y la española, y borda su análisis con detalles memorables.»Niall Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal «Un modelo de historia comparada.»The New York Times Book Review«Un análisis minucioso y amplio de miras que anula gran parte de las ideas convencionales. Este fue durante mucho tiempo un tema en busca de autor, y Elliott estaba destinado a cumplir con esa misión.»Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Literary Review «Magistral. Marca un hito en la historia de dos imperios y en la posibilidad de compararlos.»Josep María Fradera, Revista de Libros«Sus conclusiones que hacen plena justicia a las cualidades de equilibrio y de sensibilidad para el matiz que caracterizan al gran hispanista británico.»Carlos Martínez Shaw, Pedralbes «Unavigorosa historia de encuentros y desencuentros americanos que deshace por el camino muchos tópicos.»Miguel Ángel Bastenier, Babelia «Monumental. Elliott utiliza la historia de cada colonización para iluminar a la otra. Desafía nuestros prejuicios sobre la conquista española y los mitos patrióticos que se han gestado en torno a la inglesa.»Financial Times
Imperium
by Ryszard KapuscinskiRyszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire in our time.He begins with his own childhood memories of the postwar Soviet occupation of Pinsk, in what was then Poland's eastern frontier ("something dreadful and incomprehensible...in this world that I enter at seven years of age"), and takes us up to 1967, when, as a journalist just starting out, he traveled across a snow-covered and desolate Siberia, and through the Soviet Union's seven southern and Central Asian republics, territories whose individual histories, cultures, and religions he found thriving even within the "stiff, rigorous corset of Soviet power."Between 1989 and 1991, Kapuscinski made a series of extended journeys through the disintegrating Soviet empire, and his account of these forms the heart of the book. Bypassing official institutions and itineraries, he traversed the Soviet territory alone, from the border of Poland to the site of the most infamous gulags in far-eastern Siberia (where "nature pals it up with the executioner"), from above the Arctic Circle to the edge of Afghanistan, visiting dozens of cities and towns and outposts, traveling more than 40,000 miles, venturing into the individual lives of men, women, and children in order to Understand the collapsing but still various larger life of the empire.Bringing the book to a close is a collection of notes which, Kapuscinski writes, "arose in the margins of my journeys" -- reflections on the state of the ex-USSR and on his experience of having watched its fate unfold "on the screen of a television set...as well as on the screen of the country's ordinary, daily reality, which surrounded me during my travels." It is this "schizophrenic perception in two different dimensions" that enabled Kapuscinski to discover and illuminate the most telling features of a society in dire turmoil.Imperium is a remarkable work from one of the most original and sharply perceptive interpreters of our world -- galvanizing narrative deeply informed by Kapuscinski's limitless curiosity and his passion for truth, and suffused with his vivid sense of the overwhelming importance of history as it is lived, and of our constantly shifting places within it.
Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration
by Andrew LintottThe Roman Empire at its height encompassed the majority of the world known to the Romans. This important synthesis of recent findings and scholarship demonstrates how the Romans acquired, kept and controlled their Empire. Lintott goes beyond the preconceptions formed in the period of British Imperial rule and provides a contemporary post-imperial approach to the Roman exercise of power.
Imperium in Imperio
by Cornel West A. J. Verdelle Sutton GriggsSelf-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel—a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment—was a major bestseller in its day. The dramatic story of a conciliatory black man and a mulatto nationalist who grow up in a racist America and are driven to join a radical movement dedicated to the creation of an all-black nation in Texas, Imperium in Imperio had a profound influence on the development of black nationalism.
Imperium in Imperio (Foundations of Black Science Fiction)
by Sutton E. GriggsA chilling tale of living dystopia in the Jim Crow era and a utopian shadow state that exposes the conflict between loyalty, morality and the forces of poverty, racism and supremacism.Written in 1899, Grigg's moving, terrifying book describes the Jim Crow era life of a black man inhabiting a living dystopia. Belton Piedmont is from a poor background, he works hard to become educated but is subjected to the full range of discrimination and racism as he grows older. At the point where he has lost all hope he is introduced to the notion of a shadow state, 'Imperium in Imperio', a utopia where black people are treated equally and attempt to bring their values into the heart of government in Texas, altering his life forever. Grigg's unflinching narrative explores nationalism, civil disobedience, voter suppression, poverty and education, all still familiar themes today.Foundations of Black Science Fiction. New forewords and fresh introductions give long-overdue perspectives on significant, early Black proto-sci-fi and speculative fiction authors who wrote with natural justice and civil rights in their hearts, their voices reaching forward to the writers of today. The series foreword is by Dr Sandra Grayson.
Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas
by Christian Kracht Daniel BowlesAn outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts. In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a pitiable, misunderstood outsider and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage the horrors of the mid-twentieth century.