Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by
Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at
any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were
the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What
methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large
and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the
long 19th century? In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of
Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions
across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The
forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise
violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one
of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both
colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As
cultural historians we locate the power struggles of empire as much
in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or the
signing of treaties. New technologies of communication, transport
and warfare brought an 'Age of Empire' into existence for the West.
But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about human
difference and new beliefs about the state's power to intervene in
the most intimate domains of human behavior.
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