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The Ecology and Economic Practices of the Isukha and Idakho Communities in Colonial Period 1895-1963 [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2023 The penetration of colonialism in Isukha and Idakho can best be understood within the general framework of the global imperialism of the nineteenth century, with Europe being the hub of global imperialism where the imperialists were motivated by economic,
Kizito Lusambili Muchanga
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Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2020 From its initial publication, Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill has been regarded as children’s literature and Kipling’s imperialism—how he teaches and justifies British Empire’s imperial ideology—has been the main issue for critics in children’s ...
Hera Kim
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British Imperialism, National Identity, and Scotland’s Built Environment
Angles, 2023 Over the last decade, analyses of Scotland’s historic global diasporas have incorporated more pronounced conversations on how Scotland’s current political, social, and economic contexts are rooted in the legacies of the British Empire.
Kirsten Carter McKee
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Decolonizing imperialist discourse in Jane Austen’s Persuasion: A Saidian perspective
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2023 In his highly influential work Culture and Imperialism , Edward Said unravels the imperialist undertones in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park . Throughout the chapter entitled “Jane Austen and the Empire,” Said demonstrates how this seemingly domestic novel
Muna Abd-Rabbo +2 more
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2020 The spread of English is considered as a tool of British political and linguistic imperialism in effects of globalization. Kachrus Three Circle model of World Englishes has always played significant role in the categorization of the spread of English ...
Naeema Shah
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Groundings, 2022 While the British Empire is acknowledged to have functioned from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was during the nineteenth century that its greatest expansion in terms of size, population, and wealth occurred. Dominating the nineteenth century,
Molly Finlay
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Classical Histories, Colonial Objects: The Specimen Table Across Time and Space
British Art Studies, 2021 This article seeks to contextualise the production, purchase, and display of specimen tables in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considering their fragmentary forms as a material result of both British neoclassicism and imperialism.
Freya Gowrley
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Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Baghdad Railway, 1888 –1914: ‘Cosmopolitanism’ vs. ‘Patriotism’
Journal of Universal History Studies, 2021 According to the interpretation of Cain and Hopkins, British imperialism was driven by a social stratum they dub ‘gentlemanly capitalists’. This refers to the financial and service sector based in south-eastern England. This article aims to contribute to
Christian Lekon
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The Drama of Naming Ireland: Brian Friel's Translations and The Communication Cord
Names, 2001 Irish playwright Brian Friel explores the complexity of names as they relate to Gaelic culture and British imperialism. In Translations, Friel dramatizes the 19th century British Ordance Survey which attempted to standardize and Anglicize the names of ...
Glenn Hutchinson
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022 Although often reduced to moralizing maxims, enjoyed for their exoticism, or relegated to the realm of children’s literature, fables resist such restrictive confinements by creating a narrative space that invites the contemplation of intricate political,
Adina DRAGOȘ
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