Overview
- Presents a new and compelling interpretation of the the intellectual worlds and motives at the heart of the late British empire
- Demonstrates precisely how racism served as the bulwark for imperial rule, as well as its undoing
- Offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between ideas and action in British, Imperial, Anglo-American, and international history
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-century Britain. But the means by which influential thinkers sought to steer democracy and state development also consigned vast populations to the margins of imperial debate and policy. From the 1880s onward, politicians, intellectuals, and journalists erected a school of thought based on exclusion and deferral that segregated past and future, backwardness and civilization, validating racial discrimination in empire all while disavowing racism. These efforts, however, engendered powerful anticolonial backlash and cast a long shadow over the closing decades of imperial rule. Bringing to life the forgotten struggles which have, in effect, defined our times, Imperial Historyand the Global Politics of Exclusion is an important reinterpretation of the intellectual history of the British Empire.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Amanda Behm is Lecturer in British History at the University of York, UK. She has taught previously at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imperial History and the Global Politics of Exclusion
Book Subtitle: Britain, 1880-1940
Authors: Amanda Behm
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54850-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54602-9Published: 08 November 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54850-4Published: 24 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 282
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History