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This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the
writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical
writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings
and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill,
Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and
J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the
role of the historical imagination in the establishment and
legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists
and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's
past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national
British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and
enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical
works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the
ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well
as how the history of Empire was continuously written and
re-written.
In 1750 Bradford was a small market town of about 4000 inhabitants
in the Yorkshire, West Riding. By 1850 it had become a major
industrial city of 100,000, the international centre of the worsted
production and trade. Behind this massive expansion of population
there occurred a fundamental transformation of society. This book
examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in
Bradford. Although Bradford represents an unusual social
environment where industrial development began very early and
proceeded very fast, its history discloses with unusual force and
clarity a process that was more gradually transforming the wider
society of nineteenth-century Britain and that subsequently spread
throughout the world. By explaining the process of class formation
in industrialising Bradford, this book seeks to shed some
historical light on the character, contradictions and ultimate
resilience of the competitive liberal social order we still occupy.
This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the
writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical
writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings
and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill,
Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and
J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds new light on
the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and
legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists
and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on Empire's past as
a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British
imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened
present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of
these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in
which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how
the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.
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Race Struggles (Paperback)
Theodore Koditschek, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Helen A Neville; Contributions by Pedro Caban, David Crockett, …
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This collection is a contribution to the ongoing examination of
race and its relation to class and gender. The essays in the volume
start with the premise that although race, like class and gender,
is socially constructed, all three categories have been shaped
profoundly by their context in a capitalist society. Race, in other
words, is a historical category that develops not only in
dialectical relation to class and gender but also in relation to
the material conditions in which all three are forged. These
assumptions underlie the organization of the volume, which is
divided into three parts: "Racial Structures," which explores the
problem of how race has historically been structured in modern
capitalist societies; "Racial Ideology and Identity," which tackles
diverse but interrelated questions regarding the representation of
race and racism in dominant ideologies and discourses; and
"Struggle," which builds on the insight that resistance to
structures and ideologies of racial oppression is always situated
in a particular time and place. In addition to discussing and
analyzing various dimensions of the African American experience,
contributors also consider the ways in which race plays itself out
in the experience of Asian Americans and in the very different
geopolitical environments of the British Empire and postcolonial
Africa. Contributors are Pedro Cabán, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua,
David Crockett, Theodore Koditschek, Scott Kurashige, Clarence
Lang, Minkah Makalani, Helen A. Neville, Tola Olu Pearce, David
Roediger, Monica M. White, and Jeffrey Williams.
In 1750 Bradford was a small market town of about 4000 inhabitants
in the Yorkshire, West Riding. By 1850 it had become a major
industrial city of 100,000, the international centre of the worsted
production and trade. Behind this massive expansion of population
there occurred a fundamental transformation of society. This book
examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in
Bradford. Although Bradford represents an unusual social
environment where industrial development began very early and
proceeded very fast, its history discloses with unusual force and
clarity a process that was more gradually transforming the wider
society of nineteenth-century Britain and that subsequently spread
throughout the world. By explaining the process of class formation
in industrialising Bradford, this book seeks to shed some
historical light on the character, contradictions and ultimate
resilience of the competitive liberal social order we still occupy.
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