Bøger om Britiske Imperium

Age of Emergency examines how metropolitan Britons understood colonial violence in the two decades after V-E Day when "small wars" raged on the frontiers of empire in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus.

This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The essays in the volume highlight the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj.

First published in 1933 Renascent India aims to explain the how and why of the Indian problem and it really succeeds in explaining them, by marshalling all the relevant facts of hundred years from 1833-1932. This book is an important archival resource about the British India.

This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin's career to link the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and imperial world, and was based on two elements: the inheritance and management of a landed estate, and a well-defined sense of 'rule by the best'. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire and aristocracy, one that was riven with tensions and angst, as those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and, in Ireland, by a powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth century, and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the wider public.

The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses, the cultural representations of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish women's texts on war.Reshaping the current knowledge and understanding of key female authors in Spain's fin de sicle, this book examines works by notable writers - including Rosario de Acua, Blanca de los Rios, Concepcin Arenal, and Carmen de Burgos - as they engage with the War of Independence, the Third Carlist War, Spain's colonial wars, and World War I. The selected works foreground how women's representations of war can challenge masculine conceptualizations of public and domestic spheres. Christine Arkinstall analyses the works' overarching themes and symbols, such as honour, blood, the Virgin and the Mother, and the intersecting sexual, social, and racial contracts. In doing so, Arkinstall highlights how these texts imagine outcomes that deviate from established norms of femininity, offer new models to Spanish women, and interrogate the militaristic foundations of patriarchal societies.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (GSI), Veranstaltung: Britische Außenpolitik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Amerika und Europa, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn man den relativen Machtverlust Großbritanniens innerhalb der vergangenen 100 Jahre betrachtet, so drängt sich einem das Wort ¿spektakulär¿ geradezu auf. Man kann es im Prinzip noch nicht einmal mit dem Untergang Roms vergleichen, denn obwohl der römische Machtverlust bis zum endgültigen Ende des oströmischen Restreiches sogar noch gewaltiger ausfällt, ist die Zeitspanne vom Zenit der Macht bis zum völligen Verlust derselben ungleich größer. Während das römische Reich ¿ großzügig betrachtet ¿ über ein Jahrtausend stetig Macht verlor bis zum Fall Konstantinopels als formellem Rest 1453, reichte einem Briten schon ein langes Menschenleben, um den Wechsel von der vollkommenen Dominanz einer Weltmacht zur relativen Durchschnittlichkeit einer europäischen Mittelmacht mitzuerleben.Anhand einiger historischer Schlüsselsituationen, nämlich der beiden Weltkriege und dem Anfang des darauffolgenden kalten Krieges, ist es Thema dieser Arbeit darzulegen, inwiefern Großbritanniens Optionen diktiert wurden durch bestimmte Situationen innerhalb des jeweiligen internationalen Systems und inwieweit diese Zwänge den Reaktionen der außenpolitischen Handlungsträger Großbritanniens kaum Spielraum ließen.Großbritannien sah sich herausgefordert und wählte stets das rational im Sinne der Staatsräson und des langfristigen Volkswohls liegende kleinere Übel namens höchstwahrscheinlichem Machtverlust.

"This book tracks some of the novel and colorful journeys that British theatre embarked upon over the course of the eighteenth century, from nation to empire and back again. It examines unstudied circuits of theatrical performance extending across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston (and other urban centers of Jamaica), Calcutta, Fort Marlborough (Sumatra), St. Helena and Port Jackson (New South Wales), as well as London and archipelagic provincial towns. In each space, the performance of British drama helped consolidate a national and imperial culture that was being forged both within and beyond the nation's borders. Yet in crisscrossing political and oceanic boundaries, and circulating texts, bodies, ideas and practices meant to incarnate the best of the English, and, secondarily, British character, the stage also mobilized competing ideas about authority, cultural difference and national belonging that emanated from the small as well as the great across the flow of practices of everyday life in Britain's expansive domains. Retailing historical myths and collective fantasies, including the helpful if fictive notion of a "national character" itself, theatre was the ultimate emblem of English cultural and racial capital in an age of sail, seizing the imaginations and animating the actions of British subjects and their others ceaselessly traversing the globe"--