The Afterlife of Empire
The Afterlife of Empire
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帝国的来世
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2012
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Jordanna Bailkin
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Jordanna Bailkin
“安静地令人眼花缭乱......在这部关于福利的后殖民历史的扣人心弦的叙述中，乔丹娜·贝尔金敞开了档案，并邀请我们以新的眼光来浏览它们，并重新欣赏帝国与大都市之间在当代英国的形成过程中的密切联系。《帝国的来世》挑战我们重新想象我们如何思考和教授英国及其他地区的二十世纪。”安托瓦内特·伯顿，伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校“对二十世纪英国历史的杰出贡献。它做了任何其他书都做不到的事情：将帝国的终结和战后福利国家的崛起放在一起，同时将普通人——儿童、青少年、父母、丈夫和妻子——的故事放在这个叙述的核心。通过这本书，贝尔金改变了我们对一些最关键问题的理解。二十世纪的英国历史不仅被人们感知，而且还被活生生地体现出来。”斯蒂芬·J.布鲁克，约克大学《帝国的来世》研究了 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代的非殖民化如何改变了英国社会。尽管帝国的崩溃通常是通过外交细节来体现的，但它也是一个改变日常生活、重组日常生活和社会互动的个人过程。乔丹娜·贝尔金利用大量最近解密的资料，通过绘制福利对帝国终结的不可见依赖关系，重塑了福利的谱系和地理，并阐明了战后与后帝国之间的关系。乔丹娜·贝尔金 (Jordanna Bailkin) 是华盛顿大学乔瓦尼和阿姆尼·科斯蒂根历史学教授以及历史和妇女研究教授。伯克利英国研究系列，4
“Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfare’s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyes—and with renewed appreciation for the intimate connections between empire and metropole in the making of contemporary Britain. The Afterlife of Empire challenges us to reimagine how we think and teach the twentieth century in Britain and beyond.” Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “A brilliant contribution to the history of twentieth-century Britain. It does what no other book has done: narrating the end of empire and the rise of the postwar welfare state together, while placing the stories of ordinary people—children, adolescents, parents, husbands, and wives—at the heart of this account. With this book, Bailkin transforms our understanding of how some of the most critical issues of twentieth-century British history were not just perceived, but lived.” stephen j. brooke, York University The Afterlife of Empire investigates how decolonization transformed British society in the 1950s and 1960s. Although usually charted through diplomatic details, the empire’s collapse was also a personal process that altered everyday life, restructuring routines and social interactions. Using a vast array of recently declassified sources, Jordanna Bailkin recasts the genealogy and geography of welfare by charting its unseen dependence on the end of empire, and illuminates the relationship between the postwar and the postimperial. Jordanna Bailkin is Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor of History and Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Washington. Berkeley Series in British Studies, 4