Civility and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civility and Empire write by Anindyo Roy. This book was released on 2004-11-10. Civility and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal to civility had a significant effect on the constitution of colonial subject-hood and reveals 'civility' as an ideal trope for the ambivalence of imperial power itself.
The Making of an Imperial Polity
The Making of an Imperial Polity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of an Imperial Polity write by Lauren Working. This book was released on 2020-01-16. The Making of an Imperial Polity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.
Dominion and Civility
Dominion and Civility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dominion and Civility write by Michael Leroy Oberg. This book was released on 2018-08-06. Dominion and Civility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact. Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations in transatlantic context while viewing the frontier as a zone where neither party had the upper hand. He tells how the English pursued three sets of policies in America—securing profit for their sponsors, making lands safe from both European and native enemies, and "civilizing" the Indians—and explains why the British settlers found it impossible to achieve all of these goals. Oberg places the history of Anglo-Indian relations in the early Chesapeake and New England in a broad transatlantic context while drawing parallels with subsequent efforts by England as well as its imperial rivals—the French, Dutch, and Spanish—to plant colonies in America. Dominion and Civility promises to broaden our understanding of the exchange between Europeans and Indians and makes an important contribution to the emerging history of the English Atlantic world.
Representations of Global Civility
Representations of Global Civility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representations of Global Civility write by Sascha R. Klement. This book was released on 2021-05-31. Representations of Global Civility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.
In Pursuit of Civility
In Pursuit of Civility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Pursuit of Civility write by Keith Thomas. This book was released on 2018-06-05. In Pursuit of Civility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
