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Masks of Empire

The World History Underneath Modern Empires and Nations, c.1500 to the present

Richard Drayton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

138 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-36338-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores how, underneath the mask of imperial power, material facts such as rivers and winds, tools and technologies, the impetus and drag of older social and cultural structures, shape global history. Empires make world history, but they do not make it exactly as they choose. The facts of geography - mountains and marshes, rivers, winds and ocean currents - and of human technology, social organisation and culture determine how social power is constituted in space. Most historical writing has found its impetus in forms of patriotism, and has obscured the complexity of interests that underlie empires, and their modern heirs, nations. Masks of Empire consists of provocations which seek to push historians to consider the very long term history of cultures of domination, the role of rivers, winds and currents, the unity of European imperialisms, the 'New Imperialism' as part of the global history of Bureaucracy, the British and American empires as effects of global history rather than its drivers, the complex temporalities of imperial expansion and retreat, and Twenty-first century imperialism.

Richard Drayton is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, UK. He was born in the Caribbean and educated at Harvard, Yale and Oxford. His Nature's Government: Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World won the Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association (2001). He has taught at Oxford, Virginia and Cambridge.

1. Introduction.- 2. Masked Condominia: Pan-European Collaboration in the History of Imperialism.- 3. Winds, Oceans, Currents, Space: Geography, Technology and the Material Limits to European Power in Global History.- 4. Bureaucratic Government and the British Empire: A Weberian Interpretation.- 5. Money, Debt and the American Empire, c. 1971 to and beyond the Credit Crunch.- 6. Decolonisations and the Complex Temporality of Empire.- 7. Conclusion: Twenty-First Century Imperialism.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2016
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 160 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-137-36338-X / 113736338X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-36338-1 / 9781137363381
Zustand	Neuware