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Second British Empire

In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century

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At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was actually remarkably fragile. Reconciling the humanitarian ideals of liberal British democracy with the inherent authoritarianism of imperial rule required the men and women who ran the empire to portray their non-Western subjects as backward and in need of the civilizing benefits of British rule. However, their lack of administrative manpower and financial resources meant that they had to recruit cooperative local allies to actually govern their colonies.

Timothy H. Parsons provides vivid detail of the experiences of subject peoples to explain how this became increasingly difficult and finally impossible after World War II as Africans, Asians, Arabs, and West Indians rejected the imperial notion that they were inferior and refused to be ruled by foreigners. Yet he also shows that the transformation of the British colonies into nation-states was not just a transfer of political power. The new postcolonial societies blended British political, economic, and social institutions with local norms and values in the new nations, while mass migration to Britain from the non-Western parts of the Commonwealth created a much more diverse and plural metropolitan society. This book tells the dramatic story of how the British Empire and its demise accelerated and strengthened globalization by creating webs of commerce, migration, and cultural exchange that linked Britons and their former subjects in new ways and produced blended transnational cultures that were British in origin but no longer British in character or style.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Empire at High Tide
Chapter 3: The Empire between the Wars, 1918 to 1939
Chapter 4: The 1940s: A New Kind of Empire?
Chapter 5: The Final Retreat from Empire, 1950 to 1970
Chapter 6: Global Legacies of the British Empire
Chapter 7: Epilogue
British Empire Timeline

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
01. August 2018
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
284
Autor/Autorin
Timothy H. Parsons
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
465 g
Größe (L/B/H)
229/152/17 mm
ISBN
9780742520516

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