Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956

by Richard Toye and Martin Thomas

Book Overview

Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialism to the post-war era of decolonization. Focusing on the domestic contexts underlying imperial rhetoric, Arguing about Empire adopts a case-study approach, treating key imperial debates as historical episodes to be investigated in depth. The episodes in question have been selected both for their chronological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198820488
• ISBN13: 9780198820482
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"