Second British Empire (eBook)

In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century

Timothy H Parsons (Autor)

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2023
284 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3529-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Parsons uses vivid detail to show how Africans, Asians, Arabs, and West Indians brought about the demise of the seemingly invincible British Empire by refusing to be treated as inferior imperial subjects. He traces the empire’s legacies— the new cultures and norms that arose from its global networks of commerce, migration, and cultural exchange.

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At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was actually remarkably fragile. Reconciling the humanitarian ideals of liberal British democracy with the inherent authoritarianism of imperial rule required the men and women who ran the empire to portray their non-Western subjects as backward and in need of the civilizing benefits of British rule. However, their lack of administrative manpower and financial resources meant that they had to recruit cooperative local allies to actually govern their colonies. Timothy H. Parsons provides vivid detail of the experiences of subject peoples to explain how this became increasingly difficult and finally impossible after World War II as Afr

Autor

Timothy H. Parsons is professor of African history at Washington University. His books include The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, The British Imperial Century, 1815–1914: A World History Perspective, and The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Empire at High TideChapter 3: The Empire between the Wars, 1918 to 1939Chapter 4: The 1940s: A New Kind of Empire?Chapter 5: The Final Retreat from Empire, 1950 to 1970Chapter 6: Global Legacies of the British EmpireChapter 7: EpilogueBritish Empire Timeline

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Issues in World and International History
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: British colonies • British Studies • European Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-3529-2 / 1442235292
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3529-8 / 9781442235298