Culture and Imperialism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward W. Said
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary and cultural criticism; history
- Time of Work: Primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Setting: Great Britain, France, and the United States; Africa, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, and the Middle East
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Power, personal or social, Politics, Colonialism, Colonies or colonization, Literature, Imperialism
- Locales: Africa, Caribbean, France, United States, Ireland, Great Britain, India, Middle East
Edward Said’s ambitious new book reconsiders a historical experience the nature of which, on a factual level, is not subject to debate. In the course of the nineteenth century, the European powers—preeminently Great Britain—gained control of an enormous proportion of the earth’s surface. By 1914, Said writes, “Europe held a grand total of roughly 85 percent of the earth as colonies, protectorates, dependencies, dominions, and commonwealths.” If that figure seems high (Said refers us to Harry Magdoff’s Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present, 1978), no one...
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