Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism / / Bernard Porter

• Autore: Porter Bernard
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 941
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism; British & Irish history
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies History; Great Britain Colonies
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Section I: Empire and Imperialism -- Ch. 01: Cutting the Empire down to size -- Ch.02: Wealth or Commonwealth? The History of a Paradox -- Ch.03: The Men on the Spot -- Ch.04: Science in Africa -- Ch.05 Cannabis and Empire Section II: Imperial Wars -- Ch.06: The War of 1812 -- Ch.07: The Opium Wars -- Ch. 08 The Zulu Wars -- Ch.09: Victoria's Other Wars -- Ch.10: The Falklands War -- Section III: Imperialists -- Ch.11: George Bogle -- Ch.12: Stamford Raffles -- Ch.13: Lady Hester Stanhope -- Ch.14: Rudyard bloody Kipling -- Ch.15: Lord Cromer -- Ch.16: Henry Morton Stanley -- Ch.17: More Explorers -- Ch.18: Lawrence of Arabia -- Ch.19: The Butcher of Amritsar -- Ch.20: The Mercenary -- Section IV: The Empire at Home -- Ch.21: Further thoughts on imperial absent-mindedness -- Ch.22: Imperialism contested -- Ch.23: Elgar and Empire -- Ch.24: Architecture and Empire -- Section V: The end of Empire and after -- Ch.25: Atrocity in Kenya -- Ch.26: The Central African Federation -- Ch.27: Decolonisation in Asia -- Ch.28: Secret Services: the last penumbra of Empire -- Ch.29: After-Images of Empire -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Where I Come From -- Appendix II: Acknowledgments.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle flavour of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and discuss aspects of it in detail. This book, by the well-known imperial historian Bernard Porter, ranges among a wide range of the events and personalities that shaped or were shaped by British imperialism, or by its decline in the post-war years. These include chapters on science, drugs, battles, proconsuls, an odd assortment of imperialists including Kipling, Lady Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, architecture, music, the role of MI6 and the reputation of the Empire since its demise. Together the chapters inform, explain, provoke, and occasionally amuse; but above all they demonstrate the kaleidoscopic variety and ambivalence of Britain s imperial history.""--Bloomsbury publishing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Empire ways
• ISBN: 9780755621798 (e-book); 9781784534462 (hbk.); 9781350153882 (pbk.); 0-7556-2179-4; 0-85772-617-X; 0-85773-959-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813043503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International library of historical studies ; ; 97.