Critics of Empire
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Critics of Empire

British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Critics of Empire

British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge

About this book

The notion of 'empire' has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century. Bernard Porter's landmark work traces the critical response to the British imperial project in the years leading up to World War I. Imperial adventures, including the intervention in Egypt and the Anglo-Boer War, together with the jingoistic clamour that surrounded them, attracted powerful hostility as well as support. "Criticism of Empire" is the subject of Porter's stimulating book. Long regarded as the classic account, the author has now added a substantial new Introduction. He demonstrates the power and influence of major critics such as J.A. Hobson - the acknowledged creator of the 'capitalist theory' of imperialism - E.D. Morel and Mary Kingsley and of organisations like the Congo Reform Association. With themes which are also highly relevant to the present day discourse on the American 'empire', this book will prove essential reading for all students of imperial and international history.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9781845115067
eBook ISBN
9780857711779
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface to the First Edition
  5. Introduction to the Second Edition
  6. Abbreviations
  7. 1. Introductory: the Nineteenth-century Legacy
  8. 2. The Imperial Challenge, 1985
  9. 3. Liberals and the Empire
  10. 4. Labour and the Empire
  11. 5. 'The New Knowledge'
  12. 6. The New Radicals
  13. 7. Imperialism: a Study
  14. 8. Liverpool and Africa
  15. 9. The Twentieth Century: Radicals and Africa
  16. Epilogue
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index