Cette série savante explore l'histoire complexe et multiforme de l'impérialisme. Elle examine rigoureusement les impacts économiques, politiques et culturels de l'expansion impériale à travers le monde. La collection offre des perspectives critiques à la fois sur les puissances colonisatrices et sur les sociétés colonisées. Elle constitue une ressource essentielle pour comprendre les forces qui ont façonné le monde moderne.
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported, and benefited from, these heroic stories. -- .
In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself. -- .
This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .