Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism
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Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism
（The international library of historical studies, 97）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, c2016
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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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