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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464942703321

Titolo

Reviewing imperial conflicts / / edited by Ana Cristina Mendes and Cristina Baptista

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5879-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

325.32

Soggetti

Imperialism - History

Anti-imperialist movements

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; POSTCOLONIAL REMAINS*; I.1; FORGING IDENTITIES IN THE "NEW WORLD"; THE MAJI MAJI REBELLION RE-VISITED; SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME FICTION; EMPIRE GHOSTS AND COMPLETENESSIN DEREK WALCOTT'S WHITE EGRETS; I.2.; ICONS OF SUPREMACY AND THE BIRTHOF AN EMPIRE; ELIZABETH DONKIN'S UNLIKELYCONTRIBUTION TO THE MAKINGOF A SOUTH AFRICAN CITY; POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS-RE-READING EMPIRE IN THE NOUGHTIES; PART II; IMPERIUM OR LIBERTAS; II.1; CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND CONFLICTS

SHALL I COME IN?CONFLICT AND GENDERIN CORNELIA SORABJI'S WORKAS LEGAL DEFENDER AND WRITINGSTHUG CONTROVERSIES, OR, PASTAND PRESENT VIEWS OF THUGGEE; ANGREZI RAJ KI BARKATEN; THE MOUNTAINS OF THEIR DISCONTENT; II.2; LIBERAL IMPERIALISMAND THE ORIGINS OF ISRAEL; LEONARD WOOLF ON THE CLASHOF CIVILIZATIONS; WHEN CONFLICT TAKES OVER; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of essays investigates, across a wide range of texts and with an emphasis on the notion of conflict, the various forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustained the ""European civilizing mission."" At the heart of this volume are two controversial and



conflicting papers, authored by Robert JC Young and Bernard Porter, around which other researchers come together to complement the debate and address some of the thorny issues that arise from reviewing colonial and postcolonial ...