| Author | : William C. Kirby |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 505 |
| Release | : 2022-07-05 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0674737717 |
The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of—and threats to—US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
| Author | : Justin Hart |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2013-02-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199777942 |
Empire of Ideas examines the origins of the U. S. government's programs in public diplomacy and how the nation's image in the world became an essential component of U. S. foreign policy.
| Author | : Dina Gusejnova |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2016-06-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107120624 |
Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
| Author | : Colin M. MacLachlan |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520074101 |
| Author | : Andrew Fitzmaurice |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2014-10-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107076498 |
Adopting a global approach, Fitzmaurice analyses the laws that shaped modern European empires from medieval times to the twentieth century.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2013-08-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9004249516 |
Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.
| Author | : David Armitage |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2000-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521789783 |
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.
| Author | : Thomas McCarthy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-07-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521740432 |
In an exciting new study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth century, Mill and social Darwinism in the nineteenth, and theories of development and modernization in the twentieth, he proposes a critical theory of development which can counter contemporary neoracism and neoimperialism, and can accommodate the multiple modernities now taking shape. Offering an unusual perspective on the past and present of our globalizing world, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of philosophy, political theory, the history of ideas, racial and ethnic studies, social theory, and cultural studies.
| Author | : René Koekkoek |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2019-11-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030275167 |
This volume explores the intellectual history of the Dutch Empire from a long-term and global perspective, analysing how ideas and visions of empire took shape in imperial practice from the seventeenth century to the present day. Through a series of case studies, the volume critically unearths deep-rooted conceptions of Dutch imperial exceptionalism and shows how visions of imperial rule were developed in metropolitan and colonial contexts and practices. Topics include the founding of the Dutch chartered companies for colonial trade, the development of commercial and global visions of empire in Europe and Asia, the continuities and ruptures in imperial ideas and practices around 1800, and the practical making of empire in colonial court rooms and radio broadcasting. Demonstrating the relevance of a long-term approach to the Dutch Empire, the volume showcases how the intellectual history of empire can provide fresh light on postcolonial repercussions of empire and imperial rule. Chapter 1, Chapter 3, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
