Author: American Historical Association. Historical Service BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
What Makes the British Commonwealth Hold Together?
Author: American Historical Association. Historical Service BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
What Makes the British Commonwealth Hold Together?
Author: American Historical Association. Historical Service BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
What Makes the British Commonwealth Hold Together
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258645441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Britannic Vision
Author: W. David McIntyrePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230227811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the Irish Free State and India, also Dominions, chose to become republics.
Unfinished Empire
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. Darwin unfurls the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways-from the military to the cultural-in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being.
Ornamentalism
Author: David CannadinePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195157949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.
GI Roundtable Pamphlets
Author: American Historical Association. Historical Service BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
Book Description
The Empire's New Clothes
Author: Philip MurphyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190935006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.
Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth
Author: Richard T. AshcroftPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520971108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse.
Catalog of the United States Armed Forces Institute
Author: United States Armed Forces InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description