Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion - Britain, 1880-1940 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-century Britain. But the means by which influential thinkers sought to steer democracy and state development also consigned vast populations to the margins of imperial debate and policy. From the 1880s onward, politicians, intellectuals, and journalists erected a school of thought based on exclusion and deferral that segregated past and future, backwardness and civilization, validating racial discrimination in empire all while disavowing racism. These efforts, however, engendered powerful anticolonial backlash and cast a long shadow over the closing decades of imperial rule. Bringing to life the forgotten struggles which have, in effect, defined our times, Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion is an important reinterpretation of the intellectual history of the British Empire.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Amanda Behm
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	282
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-54602-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Promotions
LSN:	1-137-54602-6
Barcode:	9781137546029

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