Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, Ronald Robinson, John Gallagher, Alice Denny

Автор: Robinson Ronald
Название: Africa and the Victorians
ISBN: 1780768575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780768571
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Imperialism in the eyes of the world is still Europe's original sin, even though the empires themselves have long since disappeared. Among the most egregious of imperial acts was Victorian Britain's seemingly random partition of Africa. In this classic work of history, a standard text for generations of students and historians now again available, the authors provide a unique account of the motives that went into the continent's partition. Distrusting mechanistic explanations in terms of economic growth or the European balance, the authors consider the intentions in the minds of the partitioners themselves. Decision by decision, the reasoning of Prime Ministers Gladstone, Salisbury and Rosebery, their advisors and opponents, is carefully analysed. The result is a history of 'imperialism in the making', not as it appeared to later commentators and historians, but as the empire-makers themselves experienced it from day to day. Featuring a new Foreword by Wm. Roger Louis, this new edition brings a classic work to a new generation and is essential reading for all students of nineteenth-century history.

Автор: Bryant Davies, Rachel (university Of Durham)
Название: Troy, carthage and the victorians
ISBN: 1107192668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107192669
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This highly illustrated volume recreates dramatic debates over archaeological discoveries at Troy and Carthage, explaining how the ruined cities inspired irreverent reconstructions of classical epic and imaginative improvisations on the canonical narratives about both cities. It will appeal to anyone interested in classical reception and nineteenth-century culture.

Автор: Dowling Linda
Название: The Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
ISBN: 0813929326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813929323
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.

The Vulgarization of Art explores the tragic consequences for the Aesthetic Movement when a repressed and irresolvable conflict between Shaftesbury's assumption of "aristocratic soul" and the Victorian ideal of "aesthetic democracy" repeatedly shatters the hopes of such writers as Ruskin, Morris, Pater, and Wilde for social transformation through the aesthetic sense.