Europe after Empire

Europe after Empire
Author: Elizabeth Buettner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521113865

A pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present.

Europe and Its Shadows

Europe and Its Shadows
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Decolonization
ISBN: 9780745338415

Europe as we've known it is a dying myth, but colonial relations live on.

Export Empire

Export Empire
Author: Stephen G. Gross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107112257

A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.

After the Empire

After the Empire
Author: Emmanuel Todd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231131025

A historian and anthropologist use demographic and economic factors to explain the waning hegemony of the United States.

The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe

The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
Author: Thomas James Dandelet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521769930

Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957

European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
Author: Dina Gusejnova
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107120624

Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Irresistible Empire

Irresistible Empire
Author: Victoria De Grazia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674031180

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. De Grazia describes how, as America's market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States' market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome's Spanish Steps and Paris's Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America's advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America's exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture.

Evening's Empire

Evening's Empire
Author: Craig Koslofsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2011-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521896436

This illuminating guide to the night opens up an entirely new vista on early modern Europe. Using diaries, letters, legal records and representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced and transformed the night.

Worldmaking After Empire

Worldmaking After Empire
Author: Adom Getachew
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691202346

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations—a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building—obscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American, and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad, Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective on debates about today’s international order.

European Colonialism Since 1700

European Colonialism Since 1700
Author: James R. Lehning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521518709

The only textbook to survey the major Atlantic, Asian and African empires of Europe, from 1700 through decolonization in 1945.