"Arguing about Empire explores key imperial debates between Britain and France from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonisation, uncovering the part played by imperial rhetoric - its racial underpinnings, its ethical presumptions, and the world-views it ens…
Arguing about Empire explores key imperial debates between Britain and France from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonisation, uncovering the part played by imperial rhetoric - its racial underpinnings, its ethical presumptions, and the world-views it ensh…
"Archives of Empire" is a four-volume collection of original documents and primary source materials relating to the varied processes and various procedures of the colonial project"--P. [xxi].
"Makes a sharp distinction between primacy, denoting merely a form of material power, and hegemony, understood as a legitimate practice, and as giving rise to a form of social power. Adopting an English School approach, suggests hegemony be considered as one potential institutio…
Can international legitimacy operate even in a deformed balance of power, and when there is only one dominant state? Conventionally, hegemony has been perceived as a threat to international society. But how then is international order to be maintained, if this still requires a m…
Makes a sharp distinction between primacy, denoting merely a form of material power, and hegemony, understood as a legitimate practice, and as giving rise to a form of social power. Adopting an English School approach, suggests hegemony be considered as one potential institution…
Entre 1815 - fin des guerres napoléoniennes - et l'année 1931 qui consacre l'abandon de l'étalon - or et la reconnaissance officielle de l'indépendance des dominions, la Grande - Bretagne fait figure de leader mondial. S'organise autour d'elle tout un " monde britannique " qu'el…