TY - GEN T1 - The trouble with empire : challenges to modern British imperialism A1 - Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- LA - English PP - Oxford ; New York PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn914710604 AB - The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book tracks commonalities between different forms of resistance in order to understand how regimes of imperial security worked in practice. This emphasis on protest and struggle is intended not only to reveal Indigenous agency but to illuminate the limits of imperial power, official and unofficial, as well. "Pax Britannica" - the conviction that peace was the dominant feature of modern British imperialism - remains the working presumption of most empire histories in the twenty-first century. The Trouble with Empire, in contrast, originates from skepticism about the ability of hegemons to rule unchallenged and about the capacity of imperial rule to finally and fully subdue those who contested it. The book follows various form of dissent and disruption, both large and small, in three domains: the theater of war, the arena of market relations, and the realm of political order. Tracking how empire did and did not work via those who struggled against it recasts ways of measuring not simply imperial success or failure, but its very viability across the uneven terrain of daily power. The Trouble with Empire argues that empires are never finally or fully accomplished but are always in motion, subject to pressures from below as well as above. In an age of spectacular insurgency and counterinsurgency across many of the former possessions of Britain's global empire, such a genealogy of the forces that troubled imperial hegemony is needed now more than ever. -- from dust jacket. OP - 320 CN - DA16 .B863 2015 SN - 9780199936618 SN - 0199936617 SN - 9780199936601 SN - 0199936609 KW - Great Britain : Colonies : History. KW - Imperialism : History : 19th century. KW - Imperialism : History : 20th century. KW - Anti-imperialist movements : Great Britain : History : 19th century. KW - Anti-imperialist movements : Great Britain : History : 20th century. KW - Grande-Bretagne : Colonies : Histoire. KW - Impérialisme : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Impérialisme : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Anti-impérialisme : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Anti-impérialisme : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Emigration & Immigration. KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - British colonies KW - Imperialism KW - Great Britain KW - Imperialisme. KW - 1800-1999 KW - History ER -