The Future of the Imperial Past

The Future of the Imperial Past
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Total Pages : 48
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ISBN-10 : 0521638992
ISBN-13 : 9780521638999
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Future of the Imperial Past by : A. G. Hopkins

This is the inaugural lecture by A. G. Hopkins, the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, in which Professor Hopkins assesses the present state of and prospects for imperial and Commonwealth history. He attempts to explain why the study of the British Empire and Commonwealth should regain the central place it once enjoyed in historical studies, and indicates ways in which new approaches to an old subject might enable it to do so.

Potential History

Potential History
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 657
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ISBN-10 : 9781788735735
ISBN-13 : 1788735730
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Potential History by : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.

Russia

Russia
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 886
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ISBN-10 : 9781429916868
ISBN-13 : 1429916869
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Russia by : Philip Longworth

Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic age to Ivan the Terrible, and from the height of Communism to the truncated Russia of today. Philip Longworth explores the dynamics of Russia's past through time and space, from the nameless adventurers who first penetrated this vast, inhospitable terrain to a cast of dynamic characters that includes Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Stalin. His narrative takes in the magnificent, historic cities of Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; it stretches to Alaska in the east, to the Black Sea and the Ottoman Empire to the south, to the Baltic in the west and to Archangel and the Artic Ocean to the north. Who are the Russians and what is the source of their imperialistic culture? Why was Russia so driven to colonize and conquer? From Kievan Rus'---the first-ever Russian state, which collapsed with the invasion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century---to ruthless Muscovy, the Russian Empire of the eighteenth century and finally the Soviet period, this groundbreaking study analyses the growth and dissolution of each vast empire as it gives way to the next. Refreshing in its insight and drawing on a vast range of scholarship, this book also explicitly addresses the question of what the future holds for Russia and her neighbors, and asks whether her sphere of influence is growing.

After the Imperial Turn

After the Imperial Turn
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9780822384397
ISBN-13 : 0822384396
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Imperial Turn by : Antoinette Burton

From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. These twenty essays, primarily by historians, exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism even as they critically examine the implications of such approaches. While most of the contributors discuss British imperialism and its repercussions, the volume also includes, as counterpoints, essays on the history and historiography of France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Whether looking at the history of the passport or the teaching of history from a postnational perspective, this collection explores such vexed issues as how historians might resist the seduction of national narratives, what—if anything—might replace the nation’s hegemony, and how even history-writing that interrogates the idea of the nation remains ideologically and methodologically indebted to national narratives. Placing nation-based studies in international and interdisciplinary contexts, After the Imperial Turn points toward ways of writing history and analyzing culture attentive both to the inadequacies and endurance of the nation as an organizing rubric. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Augusto Espiritu, Karen Fang, Ian Christopher Fletcher, Robert Gregg, Terri Hasseler, Clement Hawes, Douglas M. Haynes, Kristin Hoganson, Paula Krebs, Lara Kriegel, Radhika Viyas Mongia, Susan Pennybacker, John Plotz, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Heather Streets, Hsu-Ming Teo, Stuart Ward, Lora Wildenthal, Gary Wilder

How to Hide an Empire

How to Hide an Empire
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 382
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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.

Imperial Nostalgia

Imperial Nostalgia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 1526161311
ISBN-13 : 9781526161314
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperial Nostalgia by : Peter Mitchell

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World

Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World
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Publisher : Lane, Allen
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 0713994525
ISBN-13 : 9780713994520
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Caribbean and the Making of the Modern World by : Richard Drayton

Imperial Legacies

Imperial Legacies
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Publisher : Encounter Books
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781641770392
ISBN-13 : 1641770392
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperial Legacies by : Jeremy Black

Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.

The Transit of Empire

The Transit of Empire
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781452933177
ISBN-13 : 1452933170
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Transit of Empire by : Jodi A. Byrd

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

American Empire

American Empire
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 1002
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ISBN-10 : 9780691196879
ISBN-13 : 0691196877
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis American Empire by : A. G. Hopkins

"Compelling, provocative, and learned. This book is a stunning and sophisticated reevaluation of the American empire. Hopkins tells an old story in a truly new way--American history will never be the same again."--Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office.Office.