Civility and Empire
Title | Civility and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Anindyo Roy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2004-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134408358 |
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
Title | The Making of an Imperial Polity PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren Working |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2020-01-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108494064 |
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
Title | Dominion and Civility PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Leroy Oberg |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 150172925X |
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
Title | Representations of Global Civility PDF eBook |
Author | Sascha R. Klement |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2021-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3839455839 |
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
Title | In Pursuit of Civility PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Thomas |
Publisher | Brandeis University Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1512602825 |
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.
Inn Civility
Title | Inn Civility PDF eBook |
Author | Vaughn Scribner |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479864927 |
Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive “city taverns” to seedy “disorderly houses,” urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminated the notion of “civilized” and “wild” individuals, and dismayed the elite colonists who hoped to impose a British-style social order upon their local community. More importantly, urban taverns served as critical arenas through which diverse colonists engaged in an ongoing act of societal negotiation. Inn Civility exhibits how colonists’ struggles to emulate their British homeland ultimately impelled the creation of an American republic. This unique insight demonstrates the messy, often contradictory nature of British American society building. In striving to create a monarchical society based upon tenets of civility, order, and liberty, colonists inadvertently created a political society that the founders would rely upon for their visions of a republican America. The elitist colonists’ futile efforts at realizing a civil society are crucial for understanding America’s controversial beginnings and the fitful development of American republicanism.
The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland
Title | The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | John Patrick Montaño |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 2011-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521198283 |
A major study of the cultural origins of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism in general.