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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.32
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism - History; Anti-imperialist movements
• Persona (resp. second.): MendesAna Cristina; BaptistaCristina
• 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 ...
• Titolo autorizzato: Reviewing imperial conflicts
• ISBN: 1-4438-5879-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789246303321
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