Esta serie académica profundiza en la historia compleja y multifacética del imperialismo. Examina rigurosamente los impactos económicos, políticos y culturales de la expansión imperial a nivel mundial. La colección ofrece perspectivas críticas tanto sobre las potencias colonizadoras como sobre las sociedades colonizadas. Sirve como un recurso esencial para comprender las fuerzas que moldearon el mundo moderno.
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories under a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who supported, and benefited from, these heroic stories. -- .
In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself. -- .
This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century. -- .