Empire And Nation Flashcards
What is new imperial history
More focoused on culture sexuality gender race and diffrence . The domestic as opposed to the political, argues that empire affected british as much as britian affected empire
Hall definition of colonialism
The European exploration, expansion and settling which led to the discovery and control of geographical others
Hall imperialism
Period end of 19c. When european empires reached their apogee
What does CABayly argue kept empire together
The need to defend against against enemies
Need to defend against native uprisings
Need to maintain commercial relations
Benedict Anderson
Imagined communities . Imagined limited and sovereign
Linda Colley
Wars
Protestantism
The second empire
Eric hobsbawm quote
“There is no more effective way of bonding together the disparate sections of restless people’s than to unite them against outsiders “
Linda Colley decision quote
“Quite simply we usually decide who we are by refrence to who and what we are not”
Colley possession quote “
“Posession over such a vast and alien empire encouraged the British to see themselves as distinct, special and often superior people”
Why protestantism
Jacobean scare
Othe religious migration
Reformation enlightenment significance of religious at all
Kathleen Wilson
Englishness new thing
British national identity formed mainly through gender
Frans Fanon
“Europe is literally the creation of the third world”
Edward said
“The orient helped to define Europe as its contrasting image, idea personality and experience”
Durba Gosh quote
“New imperial history pits itself as a revision of the old imperial history and focouses on culture, gender and race, rather than on high politics, the economy or military expansion”
Frederick cooper and Anne Stoler stability quote
” the otherness of colonised persons was neither inherent nor stable; his or her diffrence had to be maintained”
