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  • Age of Emergency

    Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

    de Erik Linstrum ...
    An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed "postwar," it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts ... Leer más

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  • Ruling Minds

    Psychology in the British Empire

    de Erik Linstrum ...
    At its zenith in the early twentieth century, the British Empire ruled nearly one-quarter of the world’s inhabitants. As they worked to exercise power in diverse and distant cultures, British authorities relied to a surprising degree on the science of mind. Ruling Minds explores how psychology opened up new possibilities for governing the empire. From the mental testing of workers and soldiers to ... Leer más

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    Psychology in the British Empire

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    At its zenith in the early twentieth century, the British Empire ruled nearly one-quarter of the world’s inhabitants. As they worked to exercise power in diverse and distant cultures, British authorities relied to a surprising degree on the science of mind. Ruling Minds explores how psychology opened up new possibilities for governing the empire. From the mental testing of workers and soldiers to ... Leer más

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    Age of Emergency

    Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire

    de Erik Linstrum ...
    Narrado por Mike Cooper ...

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    8 hora 32 minutos

    When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period has conventionally been dubbed "postwar," it was punctuated by a succession of hard-fought, long-running conflicts that were geographically diffuse, morally ambiguous, and impervious to neat endings or declarations of victory.Age of Emergency traces ... Leer más

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  • Sociology

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