Connected Empires, Connected Worlds (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of John Darwin
Redaktion: Fletcher, Robert S. G.; Potter, Simon J.; Mountford, Benjamin

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin's contribution to the study of empire and its endings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000596564
• Artikelnr.: 63580865

Autorenporträt

Robert S.G. Fletcher is Professor of History and Kinder Professor of British History at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. He previously worked at Warwick and Exeter, and as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global History at Oxford. His publications include British Imperialism and the 'Tribal Question' (2015), and The Ghost of Namamugi (2019). Benjamin Mountford is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Britain, China & Colonial Australia (2016) and co-editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World (2017) and A Global History of Gold Rushes (2018). Simon J. Potter is Professor of Modern History, University of Bristol, UK, and the author of Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British World, 1922-1970 (2012), British Imperial History (2015), and Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939 (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Making Connections: John Darwin and his Histories of Empire
Bibliography 1. Unfinished Decolonisation and Globalisation 2. The China of
Tomorrow: Japan and the Limits of Victorian Expansion 3. Liberia an(d)
Empire?: Sovereignty, 'Civilisation' and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century
West Africa 4. Colonial Australia, the 1887 Colonial Conference, and the
Struggle for Imperial Unity 5. Colonial Emulation, Competition and
Opportunism: A Twentieth-Century Spanish Perspective on the British and
French 'Empire Projects' 6. Democratisation and the British Empire 7.
Complicating Decolonisation: Mozambican Indian Experiences in the Twentieth
Century 8. Britishness Reconsidered: Interplay Between Immigration and
Nationality Legislation and Policymaking in Twenty-first Century Britain 9.
Imperial Projections & Crisis: The Liberal International Order as a
'Pseudo-Empire'