Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism by Porter, Bernard

Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350153882)

Vendor: Bernard Porter
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$44.95
$44.95
$44.95
Subtotal: $44.95
Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism by Porter, Bernard

Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism

$44.95
Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism by Porter, Bernard

Empire Ways: Aspects of British Imperialism

$44.95
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle flavour of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and discuss aspects of it in detail. This book, by the well-known imperial historian Bernard Porter, ranges among a wide range of the events and personalities that shaped or were shaped by British imperialism, or by its decline in the post-war years. These include chapters on science, drugs, battles, proconsuls, an odd assortment of imperialists including Kipling, Lady Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, architecture, music, the role of MI6 and the reputation of the Empire since its demise. Together the chapters inform, explain, provoke, and occasionally amuse; but above all they demonstrate the kaleidoscopic variety and ambivalence of Britain s imperial history."

Author: Bernard Porter
ISBN-10: 1350153885
ISBN-13: 9781350153882
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2020
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Bernard Porter
By Bernard Porter
x
Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle. He has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Hull, Yale, Sydney, Stockholm and Copenhagen. He has published eleven books, many of them on imperial themes, including Critics of Empire, The Lion s Share, The Absent-Minded Imperialists and British Imperial. He also contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and other journals."

Recently Viewed Products