Empire, Colony, Postcolony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Robert J. C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.

Summary:

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

I

II

Note

Chapter 2 Empire

Empire and Civilization

The Geography of Empire: Land vs. Global Maritime Empires

The Governance of Empire

Two Models of Empire

Empires and Diversity

Notes

Chapter 3 Colony

The Temporality of Colonization

The Colony as Settlement

Colonization, Migration, and Indigenous Peoples

Colonizer and Colonized: Intimate Enemies

The Colony as Trading Factory

The Colony as the Laboratory of Modernity

Chapter 4 Slavery and Race

Slavery

Race

Chapter 5 Colonialism and Imperialism

Colonialism

Imperialism

Imperialism without Colonies

Chapter 6 Nation

The Nation as the Product of Colonial Expansion

The Nation and Human Rights

The Nation, Human Rights, and Slavery

Chapter 7 Nationalism

Chapter 8 Anticolonialism

Anticolonialism

Anticolonial Nationalism: Italy and Ireland

The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917

Strategies of Resistance: Rebellion or Reform

Culture as Soft Power

On National Culture

Chapter 9 Decolonization

Phase One: 1776-1826

Phase Two: 1826-1945

Phase Three: 1945-Present

Chapter 10 Neo-colonialism, Globalization, Planetarity

Neo-colonialism

Globalization: Free Trade and Advanced Technology

Economics

Politics and Human Rights

Resistance to Globalization

The University

The Anti-Globalization Movements

Islamism

Planetarity

Chapter 11 Postcolony

The Postcolony as Former Colony

Ethnic Diversity

Law, Education, and Language

The Settler Postcolony

The Postcolony as a Zone of Dysfunction

Chapter 12 Postcolonialism

Knowledge and Theory

Orientalism

Culture

Language and Translation

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Subalternity.

Indigeneity

Nomadism

Migration

References

Name Index

Subject Index

EULA.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Young, Robert J. C. Empire, Colony, Postcolony

ISBN:

9781118896143

OCLC:

932319960