Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth CenturyU of Minnesota Press, 1985 - 263 ページ Uncertain Dimensions was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. World War I battered the Western imperial systems and destroyed one, that of Germany, but it did not sound the death knell of an empire. The "scramble" for overseas territory ha reached a virtual conclusion shortly before the war; afterwards, the main business of empire was to ensure a pax colonia: the often contradictory goals of a stable government and economic development. It is with the years between world wars—the brief age of administrative empire — that Raymond Betts is chiefly concerned in this book. An unsettled time, when individuals coped with empire of uncertain dimensions, the interwar years nonetheless left a material legacy—railroads, motor roads, public buildings — and an ideological one—the voices of protest that led to independence after World War II. Preeminently a cultural history of the era rather than a political narrative, Uncertain Dimensions centers upon the regions we now call the Third World—Subsaharan Africa and Southeast Asia—and the major colonial powers, Great Britain and France. Betts has structured this book as a group of closely linked interpretive essays, each devoted to a specific aspect of the late colonial experience: World War I and the postwar mandates, colonial administration, the European economic imperative and "technology transfer," urbanization, anti-imperial protest, and decolonization. Throughout, he draws upon the work of novelists, poets, and theoreticians—Aime Cesaire, Claude McKay, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and many others—and recognizes the deep irony at the heart of modern imperialism: that contact between Western and Third worlds was mostly confined to two minorities, the alien European and the socially uprooted African or Asian. |
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... interwar years but was also largely realized then . Moreover , the questioning of the social encounter — the " colonial situation " —also intensified so that the ide- ologies that justified the nationalism of the years following World ...
... interwar period by the " inverted blockade . " This activity con- sisted of evacuating a rebellious tribe under threat of aerial bombardment , dropping a few bombs on the settlement for effect , and using airplanes to pa- trol the area ...
... interwar period is marked with terms such as " development , " " betterment , " and " efficiency . " The " heroic " phase of empire was closed . That brief moment , when a Charles " Chinese " Gordon appeared in defeat and defiance ...
... interwar period . In those years the structure of modern empire was established , what was good and bad about it was institutionally fixed . The terminal decade of imperialism — usually defined as beginning with the independence of ...
... interwar years were far more durable than the politics that had governed them . Just as there is no single event that clearly marks the end of empire , there is none that provides a sharp distinction in the developments of the early ...