Robert Gildea (University of Oxford)

Empires of the Mind

The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain's relations with Europe.

Produktdetails

• The Wiles Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781107159587
• ISBN-10: 110715958X
• Artikelnr.: 53536295

Autorenporträt

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He has written extensively on French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the many awards his publications have garnered, Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance (2015) was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (2003) won the 2003 Wolfson History Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Empires constructed and contested
2. Empires in crisis: two world wars
3. The imperialism of decolonisation
4. Neo-colonialism, new global empire
5. Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash
6. Europe: in or out?
7. Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism
8. Hubris and nemesis: Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis
9. The empire strikes back
10. Fantasy, anguish and working through
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index.