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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories (Paperback)
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories (Paperback)
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Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a
comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.
Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early
sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather
insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to
imperial formations outside the West including the Russian,
Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided
into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main
eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the
settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more
by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way,
most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and
rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement,
and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in
colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of
governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in
particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces -
studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each
chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the
same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial
constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad
dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their
relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect
critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached
in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically
about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline.
These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the
current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which
may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad
range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary
scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing
political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation
and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and
social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing
and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the
reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the
maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which
sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion
emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process.
Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the
particularities of individual empires, rather than
over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all
places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and
historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways
precisely what constituted the modern empire.
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