Author: Akira IriyePublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : East (Far East)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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After Imperialism
Author: Akira IriyePublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : East (Far East)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Worldmaking After Empire
Author: Adom GetachewPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today’s international order.
After Colonialism
Author: Gyan PrakashPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691037426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.
Imperialism and After
Author: Wolfgang J. MommsenPublisher: [London] : German Historical Institute ; London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9780049090187
Category : Imperialism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
After Empire
Author: Peter ZarrowPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804781877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it possible to suddenly imagine a world without the emperor? After Empire traces the formation of the modern Chinese idea of the state through the radical reform programs of the late Qing (1885–1911), the Revolution of 1911, and the first years of the Republic through the final expulsion of the last emperor of the Qing from the Forbidden City in 1924. It contributes to longstanding debates on modern Chinese nationalism by highlighting the evolving ideas of major political thinkers and the views reflected in the general political culture. Zarrow uses a wide range of sources to show how "statism" became a hegemonic discourse that continues to shape China today. Essential to this process were the notions of citizenship and sovereignty, which were consciously adopted and modified from Western discourses on legal theory and international state practices on the basis of Chinese needs and understandings. This text provides fresh interpretations and keen insights into China's pivotal transition from dynasty to republic.
Green Imperialism
Author: Richard H. GrovePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521565134
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.
Imperialism
Author: John Atkinson HobsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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After the Empire
Author: Emmanuel ToddPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231131025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.
European Colonialism Since 1700
Author: James R. LehningPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521518709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The only textbook to survey the major Atlantic, Asian and African empires of Europe, from 1700 through decolonization in 1945.
Empires of Intelligence
Author: Martin ThomasPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
'Empires of Intelligence' argues that colonial control in British and French empires depended on an elabroate security apparatus. Thomas shows the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization.