Antoinette Burton

Trouble with Empire

Challenges to Modern British Imperialism

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Produktbeschreibung

A short, idea driven history of resistance to the British empire, written by a senior British historian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 146mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780199936601
• ISBN-10: 0199936609
• Artikelnr.: 42804561

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Burton is Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2010-11), she is the author of numerous works on the British empire, women and feminism, and world history.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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