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Author | : Margaret Strobel |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1991-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253206312 |
Download European Women and the Second British Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the colonial phenomenon in the modern era." —Journal of World History "Provides a powerful and important analysis foregrounding the ideological construction of whiteness in understandings of gender and sexuality. . . . Margaret Strobel manages to provide a convincing analysis of the contradictory and often challenging space occupied by European women in the project of empire." —Signs "Strobel is to be highly commended for an historical analysis that brings critical light to bear on the complex interactions of gender, race, and class that have shadowed both European men's and women's participation in colonialism." —Women and Politics " . . . a clear exposition and synthesis . . . In this useful introduction to a new field, Strobel lays out clearly the arguments on which it is built. Her book makes it possible to acquaint students with the initial array of scholarship that is already growing. She also demonstrates that rewriting an imperial history that is sensitive to gender, culture, race, sexuality, and power is an exhilarating enterprise." —American Historical Review Based on the published accounts of travelers and officials' wives, biographies and other materials, this is a lively, fast-paced account of the roles of white women in the British empire, from about 1880 to the recent past. The European women of the second British empire carved out a space for themselves amid the options made available to them by British expansion, but they too were treated as inferiors—the inferior sex within the superior race.
Author | : Vincent Todd Harlow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Download The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763-1793 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Timothy H Parsons |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2023-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442235292 |
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At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was actually remarkably fragile. Reconciling the humanitarian ideals of liberal British democracy with the inherent authoritarianism of imperial rule required the men and women who ran the empire to portray their non-Western subjects as backward and in need of the civilizing benefits of British rule. However, their lack of administrative manpower and financial resources meant that they had to recruit cooperative local allies to actually govern their colonies. Timothy H. Parsons provides vivid detail of the experiences of subject peoples to explain how this became increasingly difficult and finally impossible after World War II as Afr
Author | : Andrea Bosco |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1443869996 |
Download The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the 'Second' British Empire (1909-1919) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In spite of the general phobia of federalism, there is a strong federalist trend within British political culture. In three very different historical contexts, federalism inspired the action of political movements such as the Imperial Federation League, the Round Table and the Federal Union. Indeed, it was regarded as the solution to problems arising from the first signs of the possible collapse of Great Britain and its Empire. The Round Table Movement played a particularly interesting role in this regard, attempting to reverse the rapid and inexorable decline of the British Empire. It was a political organisation with roots in all the major peripheries of the Empire and almost unlimited financial resources. This volume discusses the strategies and means employed by the group in order to maintain the British Empire’s global prominence. The book’s main argument is that we did not have a “British century” – the nineteenth – and an “American century” – the twentieth – but, rather, four centuries of Anglo–Saxon supremacy, which witnessed the affirmation of the national principle – expression of the Continental political tradition – and its overcoming through its opposite, the federal principle, the expression of the insular political tradition.
Author | : Andrew Stewart |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2008-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847252443 |
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Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict. It asks why this political and military coalition was ultimately successful in overcoming the challenge of the Axis powers but, in the process, proved unable to preserve itself. Although these changes were inevitable the manner of the evolution was sometimes painful, as Britain's wartime economic decline left its political position exposed in a changing post-war international system.
Author | : Sandra Halperin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2015-11-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107109469 |
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This book reveals how the structures and practices of past empires interact with and shape contemporary 'national' ones.
Author | : Mark Naidis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Second British Empire, 1783-1965 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Martin Kitchen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1996-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349248304 |
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From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
Author | : Trevor Owen Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Commonwealth countries |
ISBN | : 9781383032093 |
Download The British Empire, 1558-1995 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lloyd describes the full sweep of expansion and decolonization in the history of the British empire from the voyages of discovery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the achievement of independence in the second half of the 20th century.
Author | : Peter Clarke |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1596917423 |
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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.