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Book Synopsis The Forms of Informal Empire by : Jessie Reeder
Download or read book The Forms of Informal Empire written by Jessie Reeder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonization. Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Prize by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings—Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the sway of British financial power, subjecting them to an informal empire that lasted into the twentieth century. In The Forms of Informal Empire, Jessie Reeder reveals that this economic imperial control was founded on an audacious conceptual paradox: that Latin America should simultaneously be both free and unfree. As a result, two of the most important narrative tropes of empire—progress and family—grew strained under the contradictory logic of an informal empire. By reading a variety of texts in English and Spanish—including Simón Bolívar's letters and essays, poetry by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, and novels by Anthony Trollope and Vicente Fidel López—Reeder challenges the conventional wisdom that informal empire was simply an extension of Britain's vast formal empire. In her compelling formalist account of the structures of imperial thought, informal empire emerges as a divergent, intractable concept throughout the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. The Forms of Informal Empire goes where previous studies of informal empire and the British nineteenth century have not, offering nuanced and often surprising close readings of British and Latin American texts in their original languages. Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.
Book Synopsis The Forms of Informal Empire by : Jessie Reeder
Download or read book The Forms of Informal Empire written by Jessie Reeder and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeder's comparative approach provides a new vision of imperial power and makes a forceful case for expanding the archive of British literary studies.
Book Synopsis Informal Empire in Latin America by : Matthew Brown
Download or read book Informal Empire in Latin America written by Matthew Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British 'informal empire' in Latin America. It builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. Bayly. Combining a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approaches, and by proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of 'informal empire'. It illuminates the study of British imperialism, from which Latin America is usually conspicuous only by its absence, and provides a broad and sound basis for interpreting the complex processes of nation-building and state-formation in Latin America. The book includes essays by scholars who have been shaping the debate for several decades, alongside work by a younger generation of researchers keen to re-conceptualise and re-assess the roles of capital, commerce and culture in shaping informal empire.
Download or read book The Forms of Informal Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Forms of Informal Empire: Narrating British and Latin American Relations, 1810-1900" expands beyond traditional empire studies to reveal transformative interactions between Great Britain and the southern Americas. When Latin America broke free from Spain at the turn of the nineteenth century it was re-subjugated to British financial imperialism, or informal empire, radically redrawing the Atlantic networks of commerce, travel, and power. I argue that the early discourses of informal empire relied on a paradoxical notion of freedom: Britain had to argue for Latin America to be free in order to re-subject it to financial control. Competing discourses--the clamor to make Latin America simultaneously more free and less free--thus emerged as the very structure of British-Latin American relations and of British informal empire itself. By reading canonical British authors such as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anthony Trollope, and H. Rider Haggard alongside prominent Latin American thinkers Simón Bolívar and Vicente López in their native Spanish, I show that writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry encountered formal challenges in telling this paradoxical story, which seemed to both progress toward freedom and regress toward dependence. I argue that they deployed experimental and strained narrative forms as they struggled to re-conceptualize "freedom" in a new Atlantic world defined by both postcolonial liberation and the subjugating forces of global capital. This project makes an interdisciplinary intervention in transatlantic studies, which has typically been defined by monolingual approaches. I use literary methods to study financial imperialism as it takes on narrative forms and becomes visible in the narrative forms of literature. My methods therefore build on theoretical work in new formalism as well as the classic arguments of Homi Bhabha and Hayden White, who show that political formations are made legible via narrative. Although many humanist critics have viewed the progress of capital as totalizing and inevitable, my focus on the dual--and dueling--narratives of informal empire shows that an Atlantic community of British and Latin American authors developed complex narrative techniques to expose an outside to the terms of this imperial discourse.
Book Synopsis Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture by : G. Barton
Download or read book Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture written by G. Barton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Emperor's Informal Empire by : David Faure
Download or read book The Chinese Emperor's Informal Empire written by David Faure and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informal Empire in Latin America by : Matthew Brown
Download or read book Informal Empire in Latin America written by Matthew Brown and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary interrogation of the concept of British ‘informal empire’ in Latin America. Builds upon recent advances in the historiography of imperialism and studies of the nineteenth-century modern world, most obviously the work of Ann Stoler, Catherine Hall and C.A. Bayly Combines a comparative perspective with the juxtaposition of political economy, cultural history, gendered and postcolonial approaches By proposing and debating alternative explanatory models, the book breathes new life into the flagging concept of ‘informal empire’ Illuminates the study of British imperialism, from which Latin America is usually conspicuous only by its absence, and provides a broad and sound basis for interpreting the complex processes of nation-building and state-formation in Latin America Includes essays by scholars who have been shaping the debate for several decades, alongside work by a younger generation of researchers keen to re-conceptualise and re-assess the roles of commerce and culture in shaping informal empire
Book Synopsis Informal Empire in Crisis by : Martyn Atkins
Download or read book Informal Empire in Crisis written by Martyn Atkins and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in the Chinese Government. His position at the heart of China's fiscal, commercial and mercantile systems was crucial to the continued prosperity of the foreign business community in Shanghai and elsewhere. This work draws on unpublished British Foreign Office records and other contemporary sources to support its examination of the issues surrounding the appointment of a new Inspector-General in 1928, and the bitterness and intrigue which these issues engendered. The underlying debate between the British Legation in Peking and the Foreign Office in London illustrates the dilemma of a diplomatic establishment no longer able to rely upon the use of force to defend British interests in China.
Book Synopsis Global Governance by : Lisa L. Martin
Download or read book Global Governance written by Lisa L. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization, while not entirely new, has created new challenges for policymakers attempting to reap its benefits and manage its effects. This volume brings together work on global governance that examines these challenges and looks at the patterns of governance that emerge.
Download or read book Empire's Law written by Amy Bartholomew and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can democracy and human rights be imposed "by fire and sword"? Influential intellectuals, lawyers, and politicians from Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Reg Whitaker, Jurgen Habermas, Andrew Arato and Samir Amin, examine the impact that the doctrine of pre-emptive war has had on international law and human rights, and its implications for the future of global justice and the rule of law. Charting new ways forward, and drawing on a variety of legal and political arguments, the contributors provide a wide-ranging analysis that will be useful to anyone with an interest in imperialism and international law.
Download or read book Endless Empire written by Alfred W. McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the European Union now rise in global influence, twenty leading historians from four continents take a timely look backward and forward to discover patterns of eclipse in past empires that are already shaping a decline in U.S. global power"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis International Security and Conflict by : Bruce M. Russett
Download or read book International Security and Conflict written by Bruce M. Russett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles and papers that presents a variety of perspectives on key topics in international security and conflict. It draws on international scholars working from different kinds of theories (realist, liberal-institutionalist, and constructivist) and research methods to ask why nation-states may fight violently or stay at peace.
Book Synopsis American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World by : David P. Forsythe
Download or read book American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World written by David P. Forsythe and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during the presidency of George W. Bush. The essays in this collection - based on the research of well-respected scholars such as Ole Holsti, Loch Johnson, John Ruggie, Jack Donnelly, Robert Leiber, Karen Mingst, and Edward Luck - offer a clear assessment: while US resources are substantial, Washington's ability to shape outcomes in the world is challenged by its expansive foreign policy goals, its exceptionalist approach to international relations, serious questions about the limits of its hard power resources as well as fundamental changes in the global system. Illustrating one of the central ironies of the contemporary situation in foreign affairs and international relations: that at the very time of the 'unipolar moment,' the world has become globalized to such an extent that the unilateralism of the Bush Administration leads as much to resistance as it does to coercion, compliance, and cooperation. American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World will be of interest to students and scholars of politics and international relations.
Book Synopsis Close Encounters of Empire by : Gilbert Michael Joseph
Download or read book Close Encounters of Empire written by Gilbert Michael Joseph and published by American Encounters/Global Int. This book was released on 1998 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New concerns with the intersections of culture and power, historical agency, and the complexity of social and political life are producing new questions about the United States' involvement with Latin America. Turning away from political-economic models that see only domination and resistance, exploiters and victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking collection suggest alternate ways of understanding the role that U.S. actors and agencies have played in the region during the postcolonial period. Exploring a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century encounters in Latin America, these theoretically engaged essays by distinguished U.S. and Latin American historians and anthropologists illuminate a wide range of subjects. From the Rockefeller Foundation's public health initiatives in Central America to the visual regimes of film, art, and advertisements; these essays grapple with new ways of conceptualizing public and private spheres of empire. As such, Close Encounters of Empire initiates a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the long-standing scholarship on colonialism and imperialism in the Americas as it rethinks the cultural dimensions of nationalism and development.
Book Synopsis New Aspects of Naval History by : United States Naval Academy
Download or read book New Aspects of Naval History written by United States Naval Academy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperialism written by John Gallagher and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1976 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empire & Emancipation by : Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Download or read book Empire & Emancipation written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1990 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History, philosophy, a whole sweep of ideas, come together in Empire and Emancipation in an analysis that both illuminates and provokes"A SivanandanMarxist perspectives equate imperialism with capitalism. Preoccupation with the economics of empire over the last century has obscured the politics of empire. While there are many regional or period studies on the subject of emanicipation, they lack the wide-angled approach necessary for a global understanding of the forces at work.In Empire and Emancipation Jan Nederveen Pieterse breaks with traditional approaches to imperialism to present a more balanced view of history, one that examines the logic of liberation as well as the logic of imperialism. As the author points out in his interoduction, 'We appear to know more and to think more about domination than about liberation. Does this indicate that in our general perception history is chiefly made from above?' He identifies several continuities and discontinuities of imperial history: between European and non-European dimensions of empire, between aristocratic and capitalist modes, between 'race' within Europe, and beyond, between the British Empire and United States' hegemony.Nederveen Pietersee examines class struggles in the Western world, the Irish struggle, the struggles of American Indians, and of the African diaspora, to bring together in one historical perspective the experiences and projects of the world's most powerful and most powerless.Empire and Emanicipation is the first theoretically developed study of both domination and liberation as the shaping forces of world history.
