Beskrivning
Beskrivning
Examining the rise of the field of imperial history inBritain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectualsand politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, andlaid a precarious framework for decolonization. History was politics in late-nineteenth-century Britain.But the means by which influential thinkers sought to steer democracy andstate development also consigned vast populations to the margins of imperialdebate and policy. From the 1880s onward, politicians, intellectuals, andjournalists erected a school of thought based on exclusion and deferral thatsegregated past and future, backwardness and civilization, validating racialdiscrimination in empire all while disavowing racism. These efforts, however,engendered powerful anticolonial backlash and cast a long shadow over theclosing decades of imperial rule. Bringing to life the forgotten struggleswhich have, in effect, defined our times, ImperialHistory and the Global Politics of Exclusion is an importantreinterpretation of the intellectual history of the British Empire.
