Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Autor John Darwinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2013
The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today.
John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781846140891
ISBN-10: 1846140897
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 16 bw interleaved
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1846140897
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 16 bw interleaved
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
John
Darwin's
interest
lies
in
the
history
of
empires,
both
their
rise
and
fall.He
has
written
extensively
on
the
decline
of
Britain's
empire
and
teaches
imperial
and
global
history
at
Oxford,
where
he
is
a
Fellow
of
Nuffield
College.
Most
recently
he
is
the
author
ofAfter
Tamerlane:
The
Rise
and
Fall
of
Global
Empires,
1400-2000,
which
won
the
Wolfson
History
Prize,
andThe
Empire
Project:
The
Rise
and
Fall
of
the
British
World-System,
1830-1970.
Recenzii
A
breadth
of
perspective
few
other
imperial
historians
can
boast.
The
British
Empire
really
does
look
different
in
the
light
of
it
...
Breadth
of
vision,
fizzing
ideas
and
a
brilliant
style
as
well
as
superb
scholarship
...
It
deserves
to
supplant
every
other
book
on
this
topic,
including
-
though
my
publisher
and
bank
manager
won't
thank
me
for
saying
this
-
my
own.
It
is
British
imperial
history
at
last
without
hang-ups;
the
one
we've
been
waiting
for
A brilliantly perceptive analysis of the forces and ideas that drove the creation of an extraordinary enterprise ... Bringing together his huge erudition, scrupulous fairness and elegant prose, Mr Darwin has produced a wonderfully stimulating account of something that today seems almost incredibly yet was, in historical terms, only yesterday. It is also a much-needed antidote both to the leftish consensus of the past 50 years that Britain's empire was unrelievedly awful ... and the recent triumphalist revisionism of more conservative historians
Engrossing ... What Darwin adds to this insight is a rare, wonderful capacity for comparison. Empire here is a jigsaw of dreams and anxieties, conquests and loss of faith ... Seeing the imperial experience in the round like this does gives us a clearer, more subtle appreciation of the range of power and violence at play. It raises the historical writing on empire to another level
How incredibly refreshing it is when as distinguished an historian as John Darwin ... writes something as thoughtful, well-researched and persuasive as Unfinished Empire, which explains the half-millennium-long expansion of Britain across the globe in terms that genuinely make sense ... The author's deep familiarity with all the key sources of this vast subject allows him to pluck examples for his arguments from across the centuries and continents ... Best of all ... is the thought that Darwin's book might at long last herald the victory of the post-Marxist phase of imperial historiography, and not a moment too soon
Balanced, original and impressive ... Subtle ... intelligent
Comprehensive ... Darwin's erudition allows him to skirt around the narrow orthodoxies of apologist v critic and provide an insightful account of Britain's unlikely period of global hegemony
A brilliantly perceptive analysis of the forces and ideas that drove the creation of an extraordinary enterprise ... Bringing together his huge erudition, scrupulous fairness and elegant prose, Mr Darwin has produced a wonderfully stimulating account of something that today seems almost incredibly yet was, in historical terms, only yesterday. It is also a much-needed antidote both to the leftish consensus of the past 50 years that Britain's empire was unrelievedly awful ... and the recent triumphalist revisionism of more conservative historians
Engrossing ... What Darwin adds to this insight is a rare, wonderful capacity for comparison. Empire here is a jigsaw of dreams and anxieties, conquests and loss of faith ... Seeing the imperial experience in the round like this does gives us a clearer, more subtle appreciation of the range of power and violence at play. It raises the historical writing on empire to another level
How incredibly refreshing it is when as distinguished an historian as John Darwin ... writes something as thoughtful, well-researched and persuasive as Unfinished Empire, which explains the half-millennium-long expansion of Britain across the globe in terms that genuinely make sense ... The author's deep familiarity with all the key sources of this vast subject allows him to pluck examples for his arguments from across the centuries and continents ... Best of all ... is the thought that Darwin's book might at long last herald the victory of the post-Marxist phase of imperial historiography, and not a moment too soon
Balanced, original and impressive ... Subtle ... intelligent
Comprehensive ... Darwin's erudition allows him to skirt around the narrow orthodoxies of apologist v critic and provide an insightful account of Britain's unlikely period of global hegemony