Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism

Author(s)

• Porter, Bernard

Bibliographic Information

Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism

Bernard Porter

（The international library of historical studies, 97）

I.B. Tauris, 2016

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle flavour of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and discuss aspects of it in detail. This book, by the well-known imperial historian Bernard Porter, ranges among a wide range of the events and personalities that shaped or were shaped by British imperialism, or by its decline in the post-war years. These include chapters on science, drugs, battles, proconsuls, an odd assortment of imperialists including Kipling, Lady Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, architecture, music, the role of MI6 and the reputation of the Empire since its demise. Together the chapters inform, explain, provoke, and occasionally amuse; but above all they demonstrate the kaleidoscopic variety and ambivalence of Britain s imperial history."

Table of Contents

Introduction Section I: Empire and Imperialism Ch. 01: Cutting the Empire down to size Ch.02: Wealth or Commonwealth? The History of a Paradox Ch.03: The Men on the Spot Ch.04: Science in Africa Ch.05 Cannabis and Empire Section II: Imperial Wars Ch.06: The War of 1812 Ch.07: The Opium Wars Ch. 08 The Zulu Wars Ch.09: Victoria's Other Wars Ch.10: The Falklands War Section III: Imperialists Ch.11: George Bogle Ch.12: Stamford Raffles Ch.13: Lady Hester Stanhope Ch.14: Rudyard bloody Kipling Ch.15: Lord Cromer Ch.16: Henry Morton Stanley Ch.17: More Explorers Ch.18: Lawrence of Arabia Ch.19: The Butcher of Amritsar Ch.20: The Mercenary Section IV: The Empire at Home Ch.21: Further thoughts on imperial absent-mindedness Ch.22: Imperialism contested Ch.23: Elgar and Empire Ch.24: Architecture and Empire Section V: The end of Empire and after Ch.25: Atrocity in Kenya Ch.26: The Central African Federation Ch.27: Decolonisation in Asia Ch.28: Secret Services: the last penumbra of Empire Ch.29: After-Images of Empire Conclusion Appendix I: Where I Come From Appendix II: Acknowledgments

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Details

• NCID: BB21952398
• ISBN:
  • 9781784534462
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 290 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26303974