TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gildea,Robert
ED  - Cambridge University Press.
TI  - Empires of the mind: the colonial past and the politics of the present 
SN  - 9781316671702
AV  - JC359 .G465 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - International organization
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Mar 2019); Empires constructed and contested -- Empires in crisis : two world wars -- The imperialism of decolonisation -- Neo-colonialism, new global empire -- Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash -- Europe : in or out? -- Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism -- Hubris and nemesis : Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis -- The empire strikes back -- Fantasy, anguish and working through
N2  - 'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit
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