Описание: No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peace
Описание: Assessing the British Empire in the light of scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records, this volume explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Автор: Robin Winks (Editor), Название: Oxford History of the British Empire. V.5: Historiography ISBN: 019820566X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198205661 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26532 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The text seeks to help the reader understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning.
Описание: This work seeks to elucidate the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This volume covers the 19th century.
Описание: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. In this new volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery` of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of`imperial subjects` in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-centuryworld.
Автор: Burns James Название: Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940 ISBN: 113730801X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137308016 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain`s empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.
Автор: Wood Название: British Economists and the Empire ISBN: 1138230715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138230712 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 14545 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions.
Описание: From Empire to Humanity explores the shift from an imperial to a universal approach to humanitarianism as American and British compatriots adjusted to becoming foreigners to each other after the American Revolution.
Описание: An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War.
Описание: Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.
Автор: Mawby Spencer Название: Transformation and Decline of the British Empire ISBN: 1137387505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137387509 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3772 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Spencer Mawby offers a fresh perspective on the current literature and historiographical debates surrounding the end of the British Empire. Adopting a thematic approach, Mawby analyses the nature of anti-colonialism, domestic arguments regarding the empire, security and intelligence, relations between capital and labour and the movement of people.
Автор: Kaul Chandrika Название: Media and the British Empire ISBN: 1137358319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137358318 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4191 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `The only true history of a country`, wrote Thomas Macaulay, `is to be found in its newspapers`. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonisers.
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