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| Author | : William Roger Louis |
| Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2005-07-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Here is a colorful collection of writings by well known scholars and critics on modern Britain's literature and history. From British personalities, politics, and culture, to Britain's interaction with other societies, the subjects are wide-ranging and sometimes surprising. Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the first World War; Avi Shlaim reasseses the Balfour Declaration; Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes about Evelyn Waugh; David Cannadine revisits C.P. Snow's Two Cultures; and much more.
| Author | : William Roger Louis |
| Publisher | : I.B.Tauris |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781860642937 |
Includes essays on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell, 1984, Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, among others.
| Author | : Wm. Roger Louis |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2010-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0292788274 |
Collecting the interpretations of outstanding writers on the literature and history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, some familiar, many unexpected, taking the reader on a highly engaging excursion through British life and intellectual biography. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.
| Author | : William Roger Louis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
For twenty years, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has sponsored a British Studies seminar. The scope includes not only the personalities, politics, and culture of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world. This book consists of a representative selection of lectures given to the seminar. Contents Albert Hourani (Oxford University), The Myth of T. E. Lawrence Hilary Spurling (Critic and Biographer), Paul Scott: Novelist and Historian Robert Blake (Oxford University), Winston Churchill as Historian Oliver Franks (Oxford University), The "Special Relationship," 1948-1952 M. R. D. Foot, Open and Secret War, 1938-1945 Donald Cameron Watt (London School of Economics), Personalities and Appeasement Alan Ryan (Princeton University), Bertrand Russell's Politics: 1688 or 1968? Joseph Hamburger (Yale University), How Liberal Was John Stuart Mill? Diane Kunz (Yale University), Post-War British Sterling Crises Adolf Wood, The Lure of the TLS Sarvepalli Gopal (Jawaharlal Nehru University), "Drinking Tea with Treason": Halifax in India Derek Brewer (Cambridge University), The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Implications for Literature, History, and Anthropology William H. McNeill (University of Chicago), Toynbee Revisited Robert Skidelsky (University of Warwick), Keynes and the United States Ian MacKillop (Sheffield University), F. R. Leavis and the "Anthropologico-Literary" Group: We Were That Cambridge Field Marshall Michael Carver, Wavell and the War in the Middle East, 1940-1941 Michael Howard (Yale University), Reflections on Strategic Deception Jeremy Lewis (Critic andNovelist), Who Cares about Cyril Connolly? R. A. C. Parker (Oxford University), Chamberlain and Appeasement Alan Knight (Oxford University), British Attitudes towards the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 Kenneth O. Morgan (University of Wales), Welsh Nationalism
| Author | : Andrew W.M. Smith |
| Publisher | : UCL Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1911307754 |
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
| Author | : S. Mawby |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2012-08-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1137262893 |
Spencer Mawby analyses the conflicts between the British government and Caribbean nationalists over regional integration, the Cold War, immigration policy and financial aid in the decades before Jamaica, Trinidad and the other territories of the Anglophone Caribbean became independent.
| Author | : Caroline Elkins |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 897 |
| Release | : 2022-03-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0593320085 |
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority. But what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation's imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant "natives," and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of Britain's political divide in the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting Britain's empire and the nation's imperial identity at home, Elkins upends long-held myths and sheds new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.
| Author | : Jack Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2017-03-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107047862 |
This volume considers the political implications of Judaism, the relationships of leftists and Jews, contemporary anti-Zionism, and the importance of gender.
| Author | : Joya Chatterji |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2014-01-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136018247 |
South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications. The Handbook is split into five main sections, with chapters looking at mobile South Asians in the early modern world before moving on to discuss diaspora in relation to empire, nation, nation state and the neighbourhood, and globalisation and culture. Contributors highlight how South Asian diaspora has influenced politics, business, labour, marriage, family and culture. This much needed and pioneering venture provides an invaluable reference work for students, scholars and policy makers interested in South Asian Studies.
| Author | : Robert S.G. Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2022-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000596591 |
Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. While each author has contributed according to their expertise, they also reflect on how John’s ideas and approaches continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin’s writings, including his earlier work on decolonisation, ‘decline’, and ‘the dynamics of territorial expansion’. As such, the work in this volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis: from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial comparison, and global historical frameworks. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
