Gerry Kearns
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199230112
- eISBN:
- 9780191696411
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230112.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter describes Mackinder's imperialist adventure in the Heartland itself. In 1919, the British government sent him to South Russia, the very area he had identified as pivotal for the future ...
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This chapter describes Mackinder's imperialist adventure in the Heartland itself. In 1919, the British government sent him to South Russia, the very area he had identified as pivotal for the future of Britain, to help coordinate the military and political campaigns against the Bolshevik Revolution.Less
This chapter describes Mackinder's imperialist adventure in the Heartland itself. In 1919, the British government sent him to South Russia, the very area he had identified as pivotal for the future of Britain, to help coordinate the military and political campaigns against the Bolshevik Revolution.
Howard Felperin
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122654
- eISBN:
- 9780191671517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122654.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Fourteen years ago, Bruce Erlich offered a Marxist interpretation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. He argued that there are times when we have a ...
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Fourteen years ago, Bruce Erlich offered a Marxist interpretation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. He argued that there are times when we have a duty to look beyond the ‘purely aesthetic or ‘beautiful’ dimensions’ of the play in order to recognize ‘how a work of profound social realism can be written in the mode of romance and sacramental allegory’. It was only a matter of time before a social-realist Tempest of some sort would displace the allegorical romance from the strategic position within Shakespeare studies that it, along with the other late romances, had only just regained. Since the ‘death of the author’ and the ‘end of man’, it is no longer Shakespeare's personal history, let alone his ‘spiritual autobiography’ that matters, but the larger history and discourse of colonial imperialism that are inscribed in The Tempest. This chapter deals with the recent politicization of The Tempest, its formation of the canon within the canon, and its interpretation through the new historicism.Less
Fourteen years ago, Bruce Erlich offered a Marxist interpretation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. He argued that there are times when we have a duty to look beyond the ‘purely aesthetic or ‘beautiful’ dimensions’ of the play in order to recognize ‘how a work of profound social realism can be written in the mode of romance and sacramental allegory’. It was only a matter of time before a social-realist Tempest of some sort would displace the allegorical romance from the strategic position within Shakespeare studies that it, along with the other late romances, had only just regained. Since the ‘death of the author’ and the ‘end of man’, it is no longer Shakespeare's personal history, let alone his ‘spiritual autobiography’ that matters, but the larger history and discourse of colonial imperialism that are inscribed in The Tempest. This chapter deals with the recent politicization of The Tempest, its formation of the canon within the canon, and its interpretation through the new historicism.
Minkah Makalani
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190459840
- eISBN:
- 9780190459888
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190459840.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, American History: 19th Century
Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, ...
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Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy around the world. Black radicals like George Padmore and Richard B. Moore traveled to participate in the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism organized by the Comintern in Brussels in 1927 and worked to continue international organizing against imperialism in all its forms afterward. These radicals showed enthusiasm, for a time, about working with an international communist movement that appeared pledged to an anticolonial program. However, they struggled to build and maintain their agency as black people committed to black liberation in the face of the uncertainties and shifts of state policy.Less
Between 1927 and 1930, African diaspora radicals, based in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, came together to mount radical and transnational challenges to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy around the world. Black radicals like George Padmore and Richard B. Moore traveled to participate in the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism organized by the Comintern in Brussels in 1927 and worked to continue international organizing against imperialism in all its forms afterward. These radicals showed enthusiasm, for a time, about working with an international communist movement that appeared pledged to an anticolonial program. However, they struggled to build and maintain their agency as black people committed to black liberation in the face of the uncertainties and shifts of state policy.
Chloe Campbell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719071607
- eISBN:
- 9781781700686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719071607.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter discusses the history of British eugenics, its internal debates and evolving position, and examines the aspects of British eugenic and racial thought that influenced Kenyan eugenicists ...
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This chapter discusses the history of British eugenics, its internal debates and evolving position, and examines the aspects of British eugenic and racial thought that influenced Kenyan eugenicists in the formation of their agenda for ‘scientific colonization’. The wider imperial implications of British eugenic thought is then considered with a further examination of the intellectual connections and fissures between colonial and metropolitan eugenic thought. The relationship between British eugenics, race and colonial imperialism is examined as an introduction to an explanation of how eugenics developed in Kenya and the reasons that the Kenyan eugenics research programme attracted the British Eugenics Society. The formation of a eugenics movement in the colony is seen as heralding a new era of science and social responsibility that represents an intellectual coming-of-age in settler society.Less
This chapter discusses the history of British eugenics, its internal debates and evolving position, and examines the aspects of British eugenic and racial thought that influenced Kenyan eugenicists in the formation of their agenda for ‘scientific colonization’. The wider imperial implications of British eugenic thought is then considered with a further examination of the intellectual connections and fissures between colonial and metropolitan eugenic thought. The relationship between British eugenics, race and colonial imperialism is examined as an introduction to an explanation of how eugenics developed in Kenya and the reasons that the Kenyan eugenics research programme attracted the British Eugenics Society. The formation of a eugenics movement in the colony is seen as heralding a new era of science and social responsibility that represents an intellectual coming-of-age in settler society.
Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly, and Walter Scheidel (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197532768
- eISBN:
- 9780197532799
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197532768.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol. 2: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. ...
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The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol. 2: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Ašoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as this volume amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history.Less
The Oxford World History of Empire, Vol. 2: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Ašoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as this volume amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history.
Lindon Barrett
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038006
- eISBN:
- 9780252095290
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038006.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This book is the unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, who died in 2008. The study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the ...
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This book is the unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, who died in 2008. The study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. The book explores the complex transnational systems of economic transactions and political exchanges foundational to the formation of modern subjectivities. In particular, the book traces the embodied and significatory violence involved in the development of modern nations. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.Less
This book is the unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, who died in 2008. The study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. The book explores the complex transnational systems of economic transactions and political exchanges foundational to the formation of modern subjectivities. In particular, the book traces the embodied and significatory violence involved in the development of modern nations. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.
