Uncertain dimensions : western overseas empires in the twentieth century
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Uncertain dimensions : western overseas empires in the twentieth century
(Europe and the world in the age of expansion, v. 10)
Oxford University Press , University of Minnesota Press, 1985
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- : uk : pbk.
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- : us : pbk
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注記
Bibliography: p. 221-228
Includes index
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Uncertain Dimensions was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
World War I battered the Western imperial systems and destroyed one, that of Germany, but it did not sound the death knell of an empire. The "scramble" for overseas territory ha reached a virtual conclusion shortly before the war; afterwards, the main business of empire was to ensure a pax colonia: the often contradictory goals of a stable government and economic development. It is with the years between world wars-the brief age of administrative empire - that Raymond Betts is chiefly concerned in this book. An unsettled time, when individuals coped with empire of uncertain dimensions, the interwar years nonetheless left a material legacy-railroads, motor roads, public buildings - and an ideological one-the voices of protest that led to independence after World War II.
Preeminently a cultural history of the era rather than a political narrative, Uncertain Dimensions centers upon the regions we now call the Third World-Subsaharan Africa and Southeast Asia-and the major colonial powers, Great Britain and France. Betts has structured this book as a group of closely linked interpretive essays, each devoted to a specific aspect of the late colonial experience: World War I and the postwar mandates, colonial administration, the European economic imperative and "technology transfer," urbanization, anti-imperial protest, and decolonization. Throughout, he draws upon the work of novelists, poets, and theoreticians-Aime Cesaire, Claude McKay, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and many others-and recognizes the deep irony at the heart of modern imperialism: that contact between Western and Third worlds was mostly confined to two minorities, the alien European and the socially uprooted African or Asian.
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