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Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.
Explorers --- Scholars --- Burton, Richard Francis, --- B., F., --- Baker, Frank, --- Burṭan, Ār. EF., --- Burton, R. F. --- Burton, Richard, --- Burton, Richard F. --- F. B., --- Hâjî Abdû al-Yazdi, --- Hâjî Abdû ĕl-Yezdî, --- Great Britain --- History --- Burton, Richard Francis --- Burton, Richard
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Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth century and ends with the Second World War, at the end of which Britain was on the brink of decolonisation.The author shows how empire came to figure into almost every important development that marked Britain¿s response to the upheavals of the late nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century. He examines its influence on foreign policy
Great Britain --- Colonies --- History. --- Foreign relations
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"The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a wide-ranging assessment of the main schools of thought that have transformed the way we view the British Empire and the world it helped to create. Navigating a clear course through these intellectual waters requires an awareness of their shifting currents and a commitment to tracking their changing character over time. Dane Kennedy has contributed to the imperial history wars for more than thirty years, and in this volume he brings his most important writings, along with brand new material, together for the first time to provide a sweeping overview of the subject and the debates that have shaped it. The Imperial History Wars is essential reading for any student or scholar of the British Empire."--
History, Modern --- Imperialism --- Postcolonialism --- Historiography. --- History. --- Great Britain --- Colonies
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Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into the past?In seeking to answer these questions, the proposed volume brings together some of the leading figures in the field, historians of different generations, different nationalities, different methodological and theoretical perspectives and different ideological persuasions. Each addresses the relationship between their personal development as historians of empire and the larger forces and events that helped to shape their careers. The result is a book that investigates the connections between the past and the present, the private and the public, the professional practices of historians and the political environments within which they take shape. This intellectual genealogy of the recent historiography of empire will be of great value to anyone studying or researching in the field of imperial history.--publisher.
Historiography --- Historians --- Imperialism --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- Historiography. --- Criticism --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Historiografia --- Colonialisme --- Imperialisme --- Gran Bretanya --- Expansió colonial --- Ciències polítiques --- Bonapartisme --- Colonització --- Dependència (Política) --- Descolonització --- Capitalisme --- Cesarisme --- Expansió territorial --- Moviments antiimperialistes --- Política exterior --- Política colonial --- Dret colonial espanyol --- Descobriments geogràfics --- Postcolonialisme --- Crítica històrica --- Cròniques (Història) --- Art d'escriure --- Història --- Diplomàtica --- Escola dels Annales --- Orientalística --- Cròniques --- Demografia històrica --- Història de les idees --- Imatges com a fonts d'informació --- Britain --- Britània (Província romana) --- Britannia --- Regne Unit --- Regne Unit de la Gran Bretanya i Irlanda del Nord --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Europa occidental --- Països de la Unió Europea --- Anglaterra --- Bermudes --- Escòcia --- Gal·les --- Gibraltar --- Illes Verges Britàniques --- Irlanda del Nord --- Man (Gran Bretanya : Illa) --- Malvines (Arxipèlag) --- Illes Britàniques
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