Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century

Herausgeber: Thompson, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780199236589
• ISBN-10: 0199236585
• Artikelnr.: 35275404

Autorenporträt

Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005) and Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010). He is currently a Council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Philip Murphy: Britain as a Global Power in the Twentieth Century
* 2: Jeffrey Cox: From the Empire of Christ to the Third World:
Religion and the Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century
* 3: Wendy Webster: The Empire Comes Home: Commonwealth Migration to
Britain
* 4: Richard Whiting: The Empire and British Politics
* 5: Jim Tomlinson: The Empire/Commonwealth in British Economic
Thinking and Policy
* 6: Andrew Thompson with Meaghan Kowalsky: Social Life and Cultural
Representation: Empire in the Public Imagination
* 7: Krishan Kumar: Empire, Nation, and National Identities
* Afterword: The Imprint of the Empire