I. B. Tauris & Company Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and the Legacy of Imperialism (International Library of Colonial History): Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies

Product Description How does our colonial past echo through today s global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonised states reversal or retribution? This ground-breaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and minority cultural identities. Bringing together the leading historians, political scientists and international relations scholars from across the globe, Echoes of Empire emphasizes the importance of non-European power centres - Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, Japanese - in shaping world politics, then and now. Echoes of Empire bridges the divide between disciplines to trace the global routes travelled by objects, ideas and people, and forms a radically different notion of the term empire itself. This will be an essential companion to courses on imperial and world history and politics. Review The most wide-ranging and impressive effort to date to analyse the after-life of modern European empires Dipesh Chakrabarty Original and illuminating Timothy Garton Ash An inspiration to those who want to end the West versus the Rest divide and build a truly inclusive field of Global IR or global social sciences. --Amitav Acharya About the Author Kalypso Nicolaidis is Professor of International Relations at St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK. Berny Sebe is Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Gabrielle Maas is an independent scholar and former fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. She received her doctorate from the University of Oxford