Empires of the mind : the colonial past and the politics of the present / Robert Gildea, University...
Empires of the mind : the colonial past and the politics of the present / Robert Gildea, University...
Empires of the mind : the colonial past and the politics of the present / Robert Gildea, University of Oxford.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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G 2019/3301
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English
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viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Empires constructed and contested -- Empires in crisis : two world wars -- The imperialism of decolonisation -- Neo-colonialism, new global empire -- Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash -- Europe : in or out? -- Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism -- Hubris and nemesis :...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the stri...
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Empires of the mind : the colonial past and the politics of the present / Robert Gildea, University of Oxford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3301
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74VKVeqlvXp3
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110715958X hardcover
9781107159587 hardcover
DDC
325.32
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991024252517302626
