The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2015. november 13.
- ISBN 9780199936601
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem336 oldal
- Méret 218x148x21 mm
- Súly 476 g
- Nyelv angol 0
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Rövid leírás:
A short, idea driven history of resistance to the British empire, written by a senior British historian.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Incredibly, there is no comprehensive history dedicated to resistance in the 19th and 20th century British empire. This is not for want of attention to the enemies of imperialism. There are accounts of the nature and character of colonial discourse and of the response of discrete nationalist figures and organizations to the incursions of the colonial state. There are narratives of episodic rebellion and uprising and diagnoses of imperial fatigue and decline. There are even a few choice histories of metropolitan anti-imperialism. But synthetic analyses of those who struggled with and against imperial power have failed to materialize, even as imperial blockbusters fly off the shelves, both virtual and real. This is particularly striking in an era of spectacular and empire-humbling counterinsurgency like our own. The "Pax Britannica" is thus not simply an ornamental trace of mid- to high-Victorian optimism that guaranteed the benefits of the civilizing mission. In the absence of counter-narratives of protest, resistance and revolution, it remains the working presumption of British imperial history in the 21st century. This project offers the first thoroughgoing account of what British imperialism looked like from below and of how tenuous its hold on alien populations was throughout its long, unstable life.
The Trouble with Empire is intended as a brief but thorough introduction to the nature and consequences of resistance to British imperialism. It spans the 19th and 20th centuries, when discontented subjects of empire made their unhappiness felt across the globe, from Ireland to Canada to India to Africa to Australasia, in direct response to incursions of military might and imperial capitalism. Some of these instances, such as the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War, are extremely well known. Those deemed "lesser" -- the first and second Afghan Wars and the Opium War, for example -- have also gained notoriety as Queen Victoria's "little wars." By taking the long view, moving not just across a variety of geopolitical sites but also across the whole of the period 1840-1955, the commonalities between ostensibly different forms of resistance-in political settings, at workplaces, and at borders--can be better seen and, thus, the structural weaknesses of imperial formations can be examined. The emphasis on the power of protest is intended, in other words, not only to reveal indigenous agency but to illuminate the limits of imperial power, official and unofficial, as well.
It is rare to encounter a book that directly and effectively challenges the central paradigms of its field, and rarer still for one to do so successfully. In this book, Antoinette Burton ... takes up this task with her characteristic verve ... The implications of this argument are profound. Not only should the narrative history of the British Empire be reinterpreted as one of constant instability and challenge, but the fundamental precepts of so much imperial historiography must also be re-examined ... Burton has brought trouble, and those who caused it, to the centre of imperial history, and presented a powerful argument against any who would view the sunrise and sunset of Britain's empire without careful consideration of the long, fraught and turbulent day that lay between them.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Troubled Ground of Empire
Chapter 1: Subject to Setback: Pax Britannica and the Question of Military Victory
Chapter 2: Subject to Interruption: Economic Protest and the Limits of Imperial Order
Chapter 3: Subject to Insurgency: Enemies of Empire and the Challenge to Governability
Epilogue: Toward a Minority History of British Imperialism
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
