Informal Empire And The Rise Of One World Culture
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Author |
: G. Barton |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2014-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137315922 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113731592X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture by : G. Barton
Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power.
Author |
: Gregory Allen Barton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0333919092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780333919095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture by : Gregory Allen Barton
Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world as it is today. This book traces the broad and undeniable outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power. Barton examines how the imperial web of influence can justly be said to have revolutionized human thought and culture at every level and in every location. He concludes by warning that the open elites that characterized the Victorian age have given way to closed elites that manipulate the levers of the imperial web to the detriment of meaningful culture and human liberty.
Author |
: Edward Shawcross |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319704647 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319704648 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis France, Mexico and Informal Empire in Latin America, 1820-1867 by : Edward Shawcross
This book explores French imperialism in Latin America in the nineteenth century, taking Mexico as a case study. The standard narrative of nineteenth-century imperialism in Latin America is one of US expansion and British informal influence. However, it was France, not Britain, which made the most concerted effort to counter US power through Louis-Napoléon’s military intervention in Mexico, begun in 1862, which created an empire on the North American continent under the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. Despite its significance to French and Latin American history, this French imperial project is invariably described as an “illusion”, an “adventure” or a “mirage”. This book challenges these conclusions and places the French intervention in Mexico within the context of informal empire. It analyses French and Mexican ideas about monarchy in Latin America; responses to US expansion and the development of anti-Americanism and pan-Latinism; the consolidation of Mexican conservatism; and, finally, the collaboration of some Mexican elites with French imperialism. An important dimension of the relationship between Mexico and France, explored in the book, is the transatlantic and transnational context in which it developed, where competing conceptions of Mexico and France as nations, the role of Europe and the United States in the Americas and the idea of Latin America itself were challenged and debated.
Author |
: Fatemah Alzubairi |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2019-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108753586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108753582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World by : Fatemah Alzubairi
The threat of personal harm and destruction from terrorist attacks is nowhere near as great as in Arab nations. However, are counter-terrorism laws in the Arab world formulated and enforced to protect or oppress? Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World examines the relationship between Western influence and counter-terrorism law, focusing on the Arab world, which is, on the one hand, a hostile producer of terrorist organizations, and on the other, a leader in countering 'terrorism'. With case studies of Egypt and Tunisia, Alzubairi traces the colonial roots of the use of coercion and extra-legal measures to protect the ruling order, which are now justified in both the West and the Arab world in the name of counter-terrorism. Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World provides important lessons for counter-terrorism, not just in these countries but also elsewhere in the world.
Author |
: Beatrice de Graaf |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 519 |
Release |
: 2020-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108842068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108842062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Terror after Napoleon by : Beatrice de Graaf
Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.
Author |
: Emily Erikson |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2015-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785600920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785600923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chartering Capitalism by : Emily Erikson
This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between state and commercial actors across the globe.
Author |
: Gregory A. Barton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2018-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192542595 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192542591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Global History of Organic Farming by : Gregory A. Barton
Organic farming is a major global movement that is changing land-use and consumer habits around the world. This book tells the untold story of how the organic farming movement nearly faltered after an initial flurry of scientific interest and popular support. Drawing on newly-unearthed archives, Barton argues that organic farming first gained popularity in an imperial milieu before shifting to the left of the political spectrum after decolonization and served as a crucial middle stage of environmentalism. Modern organic protocols developed in British India under the guidance of Sir Albert Howard before spreading throughout parts of the British Empire, Europe, and the USA through the advocacy of his many followers and his second wife Louise. Organic farming advocates before and during World War II challenged the industrialization of agriculture and its reliance on chemical fertilizers. They came tantalizingly close to influencing government policy. The decolonization of the British Empire, the success of industrial agriculture, and the purging of holistic ideas from medicine side-lined organic farming advocates who were viewed increasingly as cranks and kooks. Organic farming advocates continued to spread their anti-chemical farming message through a small community that deeply influenced Rachel Carson's ideas in Silent Spring, a book that helped to legitimize anti-chemical concerns. The organic farming movement re-entered the scientific mainstream in the 1980s only with the reluctant backing of government policy. It has continued to grow in popularity ever since and explains why organic farming continues to inspire those who seek to align agriculture and health.
Author |
: David Todd |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2023-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691205335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691205337 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Velvet Empire by : David Todd
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization. David Todd shows how French elites pursued a cunning strategy of imperial expansion in which conspicuous commodities such as champagne and silk textiles, together with loans to client states, contributed to a global campaign of seduction. French imperialism was no less brutal than that of the British. But while Britain widened its imperial reach through settler colonialism and the acquisition of far-flung territories, France built a "velvet" empire backed by frequent military interventions and a broadening extraterritorial jurisdiction. Todd demonstrates how France drew vast benefits from these asymmetric, imperial-like relations until a succession of setbacks around the world brought about their unravelling in the 1870s. A Velvet Empire sheds light on France's neglected contribution to the conservative reinvention of modernity and offers a new interpretation of the resurgence of French colonialism on a global scale after 1880. This panoramic book also highlights the crucial role of collaboration among European empires during this period—including archrivals Britain and France—and cooperation with indigenous elites in facilitating imperial expansion and the globalization of capitalism.
Author |
: Atul Kohli |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190069629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190069627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperialism and the Developing World by : Atul Kohli
How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S. war in Iraq. He argues that both Britain and the U.S. expanded to enhance their national economic prosperity, and shows how Anglo-American expansionism hurt economic development in poor parts of the world. To clarify the causes and consequences of modern imperialism, Kohli first explains that there are two kinds of empires and analyzes the dynamics of both. Imperialism can refer to a formal, colonial empire such as Britain in the 19th century or an informal empire, wielding significant influence but not territorial control, such as the U.S. in the 20th century. Kohli contends that both have repeatedly undermined the prospects of steady economic progress in the global periphery, though to different degrees. Time and again, the pursuit of their own national economic prosperity led Britain and the U.S. to expand into peripheral areas of the world. Limiting the sovereignty of other states-and poor and weak states on the periphery in particular-was the main method of imperialism. For the British and American empires, this tactic ensured that peripheral economies would stay open and accessible to Anglo-American economic interests. Loss of sovereignty, however, greatly hurt the life chances of people living in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. As Kohli lays bare, sovereignty is an economic asset; it is a precondition for the emergence of states that can foster prosperous and inclusive industrial societies.
Author |
: Daniel Immerwahr |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2019-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374715120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374715122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Hide an Empire by : Daniel Immerwahr
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.