The Empire Of Progress

Author : D. Stephen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137325127
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empire of Progress written by D. Stephen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.

Author : Patrick J. Corbeil
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030852024
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement written by Patrick J. Corbeil and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was an overtly outward-looking, global ideology in a period marked by the rise of scientific rationalism and belief in the logic of a European civilizing mission. Recent scholarship has focused on how the empire influenced British and American atheists on the question of race. What is missing is an in-depth examination of the formation of secularist ideas about universal progress, ethics, and secular morality. Through an examination of the secularist periodical and pamphlet press, this book argues that the religious diversity of the British Empire helped to shape the ethical worldview of the secularists, providing ammunition for their critiques of Christian morality and the church and justification for their policy reform proposals both in Britain and the colonies.

Author : James Stanley Little
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Linscot
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress of British Empire in the Century written by James Stanley Little and published by London ; Toronto : Linscot. This book was released on 1903 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Arthur Conant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Progress of the Empire State: The History of Buffalo written by Charles Arthur Conant and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christa Dierksheide
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936225
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amelioration and Empire written by Christa Dierksheide and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of radical revolution and liberty, they believed that amelioration—defined by them as gradual progress through the mitigation of social or political evils such as slavery—was the best means of driving the development and expansion of New World societies. Interrogating amelioration as an intellectual concept among slaveowners, Dierksheide uses a transnational approach that focuses on provincial planters rather than metropolitan abolitionists, shedding new light on the practice of slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic world. She argues that amelioration—of slavery and provincial society more generally—was a dominant concept shared by enlightened planters who sought to "improve" slavery toward its abolition, as well as by those who sought to ameliorate the institution in order to expand the system. By illuminating the common ground shared between supposedly anti- and pro-slavery provincials, she provides a powerful alternative to the usual story of liberal progress in the plantation Americas. Amelioration, she demonstrates, went well beyond the master-slave relationship, underpinning Anglo-American imperial expansion throughout the Atlantic world.

Author : Peter H. Hoffenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520922969
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empire on Display written by Peter H. Hoffenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which this book examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the Empire. It focuses on exhibitions in England, Australia, and India from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Empire.

Author : Ronald Wright
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887847064
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Progress written by Ronald Wright and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195051165
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.

Author : Guy Reynolds
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312160715
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willa Cather in Context written by Guy Reynolds and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the interdisciplinary methods of American studies, Willa Cather in Context presents surprising correspondences between Cather and other intellectuals of her time, including the social scientist Thorstein Velben and the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks.

Author : Evans Lewin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Resources of the Empire and Their Development written by Evans Lewin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: