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Liberalism in Empire
An Alternative History
Inbunden, 2014
668 kr
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While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian …
Liberalism in Empire
An Alternative History
Häftad, 2014
359 kr
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While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian …
Distant Strangers
How Britain Became Modern
Av James Vernon
Inbunden, 2014
1190 kr
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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in …
Distant Strangers
How Britain Became Modern
Av James Vernon
Häftad, 2014
324 kr
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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in …
Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire
Häftad, 2016
315 kr
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Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British …
Afterlife of Empire
Häftad, 2012
404 kr
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The Afterlife of Empire is an award-winning investigation on how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through its diplomatic details, the collapse of the British empire was also a deeply personal process that altered everyday life, …
Dilemmas of Decline
British Intellectuals and World Politics, 1945–1975
Av Ian Hall
Häftad, 2012
456 kr
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In just three decades, Great Britain's place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world's preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging to its alliance with the United States and membership in the …
Pathological Bodies
Medicine and Political Culture
Häftad, 2015
575 kr
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This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about …
Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain
Häftad, 2011
315 kr
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In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, …
Problem of Great Importance
Population, Race, and Power in the British Empire, 1918–1973
Av Karl Ittmann
Häftad, 2013
515 kr
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This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over …
Savage Visit
New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1710–1795
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of "savages" from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the "savage visit" became a sensation. Using a wealth of sources, Kate Fullagar shows why the phenomenon …
Smyrna's Ashes
Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East
Häftad, 2012
315 kr
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Today the West tends to understand the Middle East primarily in terms of geopolitics: Islam, oil, and nuclear weapons. But in the nineteenth century it was imagined differently. The interplay of geography and politics found definition in a broader set of concerns that understood the region in terms …
Governing Systems
Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910
Av Tom Crook
Inbunden, 2016
1190 kr
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When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in …
Governing Systems
Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910
Av Tom Crook
Häftad, 2016
315 kr
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When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in …
Thinking Black
Britain, 1964-1985
Av Rob Waters
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a liberated future out of Britain’s imperial …
Thinking Black
Britain, 1964-1985
Av Rob Waters
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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It was a common charge among black radicals in the 1960s that Britons needed to start “thinking black.” As state and society consolidated around a revived politics of whiteness, “thinking black,” they felt, was necessary for all who sought to build a liberated future out of Britain’s imperial …
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
Av Aidan Forth
Inbunden, 2017
844 kr
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Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the …
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
Av Aidan Forth
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the …
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further …
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further …
Black Handsworth
Race in 1980s Britain
Inbunden, 2019
844 kr
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In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and …
Black Handsworth
Race in 1980s Britain
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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In 1980s Britain, while the country failed to reckon with the legacies of its empire, a black, transnational sensibility was emerging in its urban areas. In Handsworth, an inner-city neighborhood of Birmingham, black residents looked across the Atlantic toward African and Afro-Caribbean social and …
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Av Kevin Grant
Inbunden, 2019
1190 kr
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Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through …
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Av Kevin Grant
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through …
Saving the Children
Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was "saving …
Saving the Children
Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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Saving the Children analyzes the intersection of liberal internationalism and imperialism through the history of the humanitarian organization Save the Children, from its formation during the First World War through the era of decolonization. Whereas Save the Children claimed that it was "saving …
Serving a Wired World
London's Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital
Inbunden, 2020
271 kr
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In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new—the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on many of today’s communications tech workers mirror those of a much earlier generation of laborers in a …
Imperial Encore
The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
Inbunden, 2021
1190 kr
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In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This …
Imperial Encore
The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This …
Cooperative Rule
Community Development in Britain's Late Empire
Av Aaron Windel
Inbunden, 2021
844 kr
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While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the …
