Journal article
Hemmed in: on the representation of imperial defeat
Race & class, v 53(4), pp 1-23
01 Apr 2012
Abstract
This essay considers the way in which instances of defeat have been discussed, represented and put to use in the context of the history of modern imperialism. It argues that the response to moments of defeat has often been crucial in justifying the further expansion of imperial control, as well as in mobilising popular sympathy in support of imperial action. What is appealed to, in such representations, is often not an idea of strategic or economic interest as such, but a less easily defined or contested idea of honour or valour. The long historical roots of this idea reveal, apart from anything else, just how far empire was the context for a rapprochement between a newer and an older elite.
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- Title
- Hemmed in: on the representation of imperial defeat
- Creators
- Andrew Smith
- Publication Details
- Race & class, v 53(4), pp 1-23
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 23
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000301582100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84863366492
- Other Identifier
- 991021013077904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Anthropology
- Ethnic Studies
- Social Issues
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
- Sociology