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After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island base, it operated on a shoestring with the help of local elites. It enshrined a belief in freedom that would fatally undermine its authority. Spread too thin, and facing wars, economic crises, and domestic discord, the empire would vanish almost as quickly as it appeared. Within a generation, it collapsed, sometimes amid bloodshed, leaving unfinished business in Rhodesia, the Falklands, and Hong Kong. Above all, it left a contested legacy: at best, a sporting spirit, a legal code, and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife.--From publisher description.

Imperialism --- Impérialisme --- History. --- Histoire --- Commonwealth (Organization) --- Great Britain --- Commonwealth countries --- Grande-Bretagne --- Pays du Commonwealth --- Colonies --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- History --- Civilization --- Sodruzhestvo nat︠s︡iĭ --- Commonwealth of Nations

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As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature is being created by a remarkably transnational, multicultural group of writers exploring many of the same concerns, including the intersecting effects of colonialism, decolonization, migration, and globalization. Paul Jay surveys these developments, highlighting key debates within literary and cultural studies about the impact of globalization over the past two decades. Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well. Through close, imaginative readings Jay analyzes the intersecting histories of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization engaged by an array of texts from Africa, Europe, South Asia, and the Americas, including Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness. A timely intervention in the most exciting debates within literary studies, Global Matters is a comprehensive guide to the transnational nature of Anglophone literature today and its relationship to the globalization of Western culture.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Comparative literature --- Transnationalism in literature --- Globalization in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- Literature and globalization --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth (English) and English --- English and Commonwealth (English) --- Commonwealth (English) and American --- American and Commonwealth (English) --- 82.091 --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Globalization and literature --- Globalization --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Literature and globalization. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Globalization in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Commonwealth (English) and American. --- Commonwealth (English) and English. --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism --- Comparative literature - Commonwealth (English) and English --- Comparative literature - English and Commonwealth (English) --- Comparative literature - Commonwealth (English) and American --- Comparative literature - American and Commonwealth (English)

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In the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other ‘texts’ and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, ‘holistic’ approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a ‘living organism’, part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. ‘Nature’ itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or ‘protagonist’ to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; ‘gendered’ natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media (‘old’ or ‘new’), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive ‘Other’ and the need for human agency and global responsibility.

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Ecology in literature --- Nature in literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Nature in poetry --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Commonwealth of Nations authors

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"Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work is an invaluable guide to the work of English-language fiction writers born since 1960. Coverage includes some of the most vital and appealing writers working today, such as Chang-rae Lee, Michael Chabon, Zadie Smith, and Dave Eggers. Containing more than 200 entries written by literary scholars, this resource provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-Speaking literary world."--BOOK JACKET.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Authors, English --- Authors, American --- Authors, Commonwealth --- Roman anglais --- Roman américain --- Roman du Commonwealth (anglais) --- Ecrivains anglais --- Ecrivains américains --- Ecrivains du Commonwealth --- Bio-bibliography --- Dictionaries --- Biography --- Dictionaries. --- Biobibliographie --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Biographie --- Biographies --- Roman américain --- Ecrivains américains

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The State as Cultural Practice offers a fully worked out account of the authors' distinctive interpretive approach to political science. It challenges the new institutionalism, probably the most significant present-day strand in both American and British political science. It moves away from such notions as 'bringing the state back in', 'path dependency' and modernist empiricism. Instead, Bevir and Rhodes argue for an anti-foundational analysis, ethnographic and historicalmethods, and a decentred approach that rejects any essentialist definition of the state and espouses the idea of politics a

State, The. --- State, The --- Social aspects. --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- Political science