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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories

John Marriott author Philippa Levine editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:22nd May '17

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Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the...

'...insightful...Recommended.' Choice ’The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories is a fluidly written, comprehensive, and authoritative approach to the current state of the knowledge and conceptions of empire that will be an essential tool for students and researchers alike.’ Michael Charney, SOAS, University of London, UK ’Neither Eurocentric nor restricted to a single privileged historiographical approach, the essays that Levine and Marriot have brought together systematically introduce readers to the breadth - chronological, geographic, and thematic - of modern imperial studies.’ Andrew Zimmerman, The George Washington University, USA '... an excellent collection of essays which historians of empire (whether senior or junior) will find both useful and stimulating. They have recruited an outstanding team of contributors ... Of particular value is the huge range of references cited, introducing nonspecialists to the latest work in the wide range of sub-fields which imperial history now supports. The book is handsomely produced and surprisingly easy to use. The chapters are briskly and lucidly written and, unlike many volumes of more than six hundred pages, it will hold the attention of even a moderately industrious reader from cover to cover.' English Historical Review

ISBN: 9781138110304

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

760 pages