How empire shaped us
2016
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Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as the history of empires. While historians have approached this subject in very different ways, their shared preoccupation with the British imperial experience - its institutions, ideas and impact on people around the world - has endured and given rise to a rich, varied, and influential body of historical scholarship. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured as an active area of inquiry even as the empire it studies slips further into the past? Answering these questions, this volume brings together some of the leading figures in the field, historians of different generations, different nationalities, different methodological and theoretical perspectives and different ideological persuasions.
Main title:
How empire shaped us / edited by Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy.
Author:
Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-, editorKennedy, Dane Keith, editor
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
232 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781474222976 (pbk)
Dewey class:
325.320722
LC class:
JN248
Local class:
325.32
Language:
English
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BRN:
1415886
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