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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299789703321

Autore

Behm Amanda

Titolo

Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion : Britain, 1880-1940 / / by Amanda Behm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-54850-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 282 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Disciplina

325.3

Soggetti

Imperialism

World history

World politics

Imperialism and Colonialism

World History, Global and Transnational History

Political History

History

Great Britain Colonies History 19th century

Great Britain Colonies History 20th century

Great Britain Colonies Race relations

Great Britain Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: British imperial history and its antecedents -- Chapter 2: Breaking up the British Empire -- Chapter 3: Historical racism between page and practice, 1880-1900 -- Chapter 4:History as institution: the battle for the new ‘imperial’ -- Chapter 5: Empire in opposition: the stakes of history and the rise of anticolonial nationalism -- Chapter 6: Empire, history, and the Great War -- Chapter 7: The Third British Empire -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.