A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Modern Age

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35826-3 (ISBN)

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A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Modern Age covers the period from 1918 to the present. Through the lens of the political and international events shaping the period, the introduction traces the gradual demise of the cultural importance of European empires and the emergence of the United States as the predominant cultural model. The following eight chapters of the volume, authored by a diverse range of experts, highlight different aspects of this cultural shift while indicating the historiographical controversies and conceptual developments that shaped the century-long evolution related to each of the specific topics.

This richly-illustrated and accessible volume provides deep historical context to the rise of the US as a major cultural force in the modern era. In so doing, it gives the reader a backdrop to the shift of Western empire from the European model of 18th and 19th century imperialism, to the emergence of the US as a cultural hegemon. A feature of contemporary geopolitics that continues to play a key role in the dynamics of cultural exchange and influence playing out on the world stage today.
This is volume 6 in the Cultural History of Western Empires set.

Patricia M.E. Lorcin is the Samuel Russell Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. She is the author of Imperial Identities (1995; revised edition 2014), Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women’s Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present (2013), and numerous edited and co-edited volumes on Western empires. She is currently working on a project tentatively entitled: The Cold War, Art, Politics and Transnational Activism during the period of Decolonization.

General Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Introduction, Patricia Lorcin, (University of Minnesota-twin cities, USA)
1. War, Richard Fogarty, (University at Albany, SUNY, USA)
2. Trade, David Lynch, (Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, USA)
3. Natural Worlds, Robert Rouphail, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
4. Labor, Daniel Bender, (University of Toronto, Canada)
5. Mobility, Jessica Namakkal, (Duke University, USA)
6. Sexuality, Anna Clark & Elizabeth Williams, (University of Minnesota and University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
7. Resistance, Roland Burke, (La Trobe University, Australia)
8. Race, Bruce Hall, (University of California Berkeley, USA)

Notes
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	41 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-35826-6 / 1350358266
ISBN-13	978-1-350-35826-3 / 9781350358263
Zustand	Neuware