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Empires and the Reach of the Global : 1870-1945 by Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Number of Pages: 227. Weight: 0.65 lbs. Publication Date: 2014-04-14. Publisher: Belknap Press.

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674281292

ISBN-139780674281295

eBay Product ID (ePID)175767150

Product Key Features

Book TitleEmpires and the Reach of the Global : 1870-1945

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGlobalization, Modern / 20th Century, Imperialism, Modern / 19th Century, World

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorAntoinette Burton, Tony Ballantyne

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-030551

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal325.309/041

SynopsisEmpires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires into sharp focus by showing how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world. Focusing on both the strengths and limits of imperial power, Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton describe the creation and disintegration of the reigning world order in the period from 1870 to 1945. Using the British, Japanese, and Ottoman empires as case studies, the authors trace the communication, transportation, and economic networks that were instrumental to empire building. They highlight the role of empires as place-making regimes that organize geographic space as distinct territories. Militaries and missionaries, workplaces and households, all served as key domains of interaction within these territories, as colonial officials sought to manage the customs and lifeways of indigenous populations. Imperial connections contributed to the shrinking of time and space, but colonial encroachments also provoked opposition, which often played out in locations of everyday activity, from fields and factories to schools and prisons. Colonized territories sponsored a variety of forms of organized resistance, with full-fledged nationalist movements erupting onto the global scene in the interwar period. Ballantyne and Burton stress that empire was not something fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there." Rather, imperial systems, with their many racial, gendered, and economic forms, affected empires in all of their parts--the metropole as well as the farthest outpost., Empires and the Reach of the Global brings the history of empires into sharp focus by showing how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world. Focusing on both the strengths and limits of imperial power, Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton describe the creation and disintegration of the reigning world order in the period from 1870 to 1945. Using the British, Japanese, and Ottoman empires as case studies, the authors trace the communication, transportation, and economic networks that were instrumental to empire building. They highlight the role of empires as place-making regimes that organize geographic space as distinct territories. Militaries and missionaries, workplaces and households, all served as key domains of interaction within these territories, as colonial officials sought to manage the customs and lifeways of indigenous populations. Imperial connections contributed to the shrinking of time and space, but colonial encroachments also provoked opposition, which often played out in locations of everyday activity, from fields and factories to schools and prisons. Colonized territories sponsored a variety of forms of organized resistance, with full-fledged nationalist movements erupting onto the global scene in the interwar period. Ballantyne and Burton stress that empire was not something fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there." Rather, imperial systems, with their many racial, gendered, and economic forms, affected empires in all of their parts-the metropole as well as the farthest outpost., Empire was not fabricated in European capitals and implemented "out there." Imperial systems affected the metropole as well as the farthest outpost. Empires and the Reach of the Global shows how imperialism has been a shaping force not just in international politics but in the economies and cultures of today's world.

LC Classification NumberJC359.B25 2012