The trouble with empire : challenges to modern British imperialism /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1044250 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The troubled ground of empire
- Subject to setback : Pax Britannica and the question of military victory
- Subject to interruption : Economic protest and the limits of imperial order
- Subject to insurgency : Enemies of empire and the challenge to governability
- Epilogue : Toward a minority history of British imperialism.