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British Empire : Pomp, Power and Postcolonialism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Humanities InsightsPublisher: Penrith : Humanities-Ebooks, LLP, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (80 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847600165
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: British EmpireDDC classification:
  • 325.32
LOC classification:
  • JC359 -- .J64 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- I: A Journey over Palm and Pine: An Overview of Histories, Peoples and Developments -- 1. Early Colonialism: Exploration, Exploitation and Chartered Companies -- 2. The Company Raj (India) and the Loss of the American Colonies -- 3. Slavery, Anti-Slavery, Liberalism and Imperialism -- 4. Imperial Expansion in the Nineteenth Century -- 5. War, Retreat and Transformation in the Twentieth Century -- II: Problems in Interpretation: Historiography, Post-Colonialism and Sources -- 6. Historiography: approaches to the history of the British Empire -- 7. Post-Colonialism: Explanation and Evaluation -- 8. Sources: Eurocentrism, the 'silenced' sources, and the problem of 'representation' -- III: Issues and Debates -- 9. Controversies over the Motives for Empire -- 10. The Colonies of Settlement: Colonisation, Identities and Narratives -- 11. The Nature of Imperialism: How did the British Empire Function? -- 12. Collaboration and Resistance -- 13. Race, Class and Gender -- IV: Selected Bibliography -- Other Humanities Insights Titles.
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Intro -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- I: A Journey over Palm and Pine: An Overview of Histories, Peoples and Developments -- 1. Early Colonialism: Exploration, Exploitation and Chartered Companies -- 2. The Company Raj (India) and the Loss of the American Colonies -- 3. Slavery, Anti-Slavery, Liberalism and Imperialism -- 4. Imperial Expansion in the Nineteenth Century -- 5. War, Retreat and Transformation in the Twentieth Century -- II: Problems in Interpretation: Historiography, Post-Colonialism and Sources -- 6. Historiography: approaches to the history of the British Empire -- 7. Post-Colonialism: Explanation and Evaluation -- 8. Sources: Eurocentrism, the 'silenced' sources, and the problem of 'representation' -- III: Issues and Debates -- 9. Controversies over the Motives for Empire -- 10. The Colonies of Settlement: Colonisation, Identities and Narratives -- 11. The Nature of Imperialism: How did the British Empire Function? -- 12. Collaboration and Resistance -- 13. Race, Class and Gender -- IV: Selected Bibliography -- Other Humanities Insights Titles.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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