The colonial world : a history of european empires, 1780s to the present
Chapter 1: Writing (and reading) colonial history -- Inventing a glorious imperial past -- From economics and empire to geopolitics -- From the critics of empire to decolonizing colonial history -- Gendering colonial history, post-colonial studies and the 'new' imperial histories -- Decolo...
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| Sprache: | English |
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London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Exiles Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (553 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Chapter 1: Writing (and reading) colonial history -- Inventing a glorious imperial past -- From economics and empire to geopolitics -- From the critics of empire to decolonizing colonial history -- Gendering colonial history, post-colonial studies and the 'new' imperial histories -- Decolonizing colonial history - yet again? -- Part I: Chronologies -- Chapter 2: Early modern European colonialism, 1490s-1815 -- Science and expansion -- Religion: Catholics and Protestants -- Commerce and colonialism -- Geopolitical rivalries -- Indigenous peoples and the Europeans in the early modern period -- Slavery: The trade in humans -- Colonial metamorphosis -- Chapter 3: The making of overseas empires in the long nineteenth century, 1815-1914 -- Europe and its colonies in 1815 -- The emancipation of slaves and the introduction of indentured labour -- Nineteenth-century expansion: Why and where? -- The acceleration of colonial expansion in the late 1800s -- Strategies and limits of conquest -- Chapter 4: Colonial rule and misrule, 1914-40 -- The colonies and the First World War -- Changes in the political map -- Transformations: Colonialism in the interwar period -- Colonialism between confidence and crisis -- Anti-colonial nationalism -- Culture and resistance -- Between reform and revolution -- Chapter 5: The unmaking of overseas empires, 1940-75 -- The Second World War in Asia and beyond -- Efforts to restore empires and to gain independence -- The stakes of independence -- Achieving independence: Contexts, ideas and strategies -- Independence in regional perspective: The Middle East -- South and Southeast Asia -- North Africa -- Decolonization in sub-Saharan Africa -- Decolonization in the islands -- The eclipse of empires. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (553 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350092426 1350092428 9781350092402 1350092401 |