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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... which Euro- peans sailed and over which they came to exercise their power and influence . Nevertheless , the political , economic , and social expansion that came with and after the discoveries affected the daily lives , the ix.
... social encounter — the " colonial situation " —also intensified so that the ide- ologies that justified the nationalism of the years following World War II were also well - defined . None of this activity suggested keen public interest ...
... social atmosphere was one of suspicion , if not of hostility , and of a certain correctness so that , formally , the two peoples in culture contact would get on . The revolutionary author Frantz Fanon has noted that in the last days of ...
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