Book contents
- Empires of the Mind
- Empires of the Mind
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Empires Constructed and Contested
- 2 Empires in Crisis: Two World Wars
- 3 The Imperialism of Decolonisation
- 4 Neo-Colonialism, New Global Empire
- 5 Colonising in Reverse and Colonialist Backlash
- 6 Europe: In or Out?
- 7 Islamism and the Retreat to Monocultural Nationalism
- 8 Hubris and Nemesis: Iraq, the Colonial Fracture and Global Economic Crisis
- 9 The Empire Strikes Back
- 10 Fantasy, Anguish and Working Through
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- The Wiles Lectures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - The Empire Strikes Back
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2019
- Empires of the Mind
- Empires of the Mind
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Empires Constructed and Contested
- 2 Empires in Crisis: Two World Wars
- 3 The Imperialism of Decolonisation
- 4 Neo-Colonialism, New Global Empire
- 5 Colonising in Reverse and Colonialist Backlash
- 6 Europe: In or Out?
- 7 Islamism and the Retreat to Monocultural Nationalism
- 8 Hubris and Nemesis: Iraq, the Colonial Fracture and Global Economic Crisis
- 9 The Empire Strikes Back
- 10 Fantasy, Anguish and Working Through
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- The Wiles Lectures
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Empires of the MindThe Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present, pp. 209 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019