Wm. Roger Louis and the official mind of decolonization
Wm. Roger Louis and the official mind of decolonization
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10.1080/03086539908583053
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1999
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Ronald Robinson
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Ronald Robinson
“当然，历史研究的最大乐趣之一，”W。罗杰·路易斯在他的一个序言中感叹道：“与朋友和同事讨论工作的机会。”在大量的研究和多产的著作中，他咨询或合作了大多数帝国学专家。他的友谊与他对历史的兴趣密切相关。他的一些同伴写的这本散文集，是他们从他的知识分子的合群中得到的快乐和益处的象征。路易斯已经成为全球话语的焦点，它将主题的各个方面和领域吸引到一起。他从英美视角的个人作品改变了我们对第二次世界大战期间和之后大英帝国发生的事情的看法，特别是在中东，而他的合作天才则实现了对四个世纪的英帝国主义的概述。路易属于战后第二代帝国历史学家，其学术生涯始于后殖民时代的开始。1956年，对德国历史的兴趣使他从俄克拉荷马州大学来到弗赖堡，在去金字塔的途中，他发现自己在开罗，当时纳赛尔上校将苏伊士运河公司国有化。埃及领导人对骚乱人群的催眠言论给路易斯留下了深刻的印象，他从德国回来，对阿拉伯和非洲的民族主义感兴趣。1960年，他从哈佛转到牛津，在那里他与鲁珀特爱默生和欧内斯特梅建立了持久的友谊，在那里，他被告知“他们对非洲有所了解”。这个“失败者之家”也许不是研究非洲民族主义的最佳场所，但它不是研究殖民管理的坏地方。他的职业生涯的形成阶段，也许是他的生活，
'Surely one of the greatest pleasures of historical research', Wm. Roger Louis exclaims in one of his prefaces,'is the opportunity of discussing one's work with friends and colleagues." In the course of prodigious researches and prolific writings, he has consulted or collaborated with most of the specialists in imperial studies. His friendships are bound up with his historical interests. This volume of essays2 by some of his companions is a token of the pleasure and profit which they in turn have derived from his intellectual gregariousness. Louis has become the focus of a global discourse, which has drawn the various aspects and areas of the subject together. His individual works from an Anglo-American perspective have changed our ideas of what happened to the British Empire during and after the Second World War, especially in the Middle East, while his genius for collaboration has achieved a synopsis of four centuries of British imperialism.Louis belongs to the second generation of post-war imperial historians whose academic careers began at the outset of the post-colonial era. In 1956 an interest in German history took him from the University of Oklahoma to Freiburg whence, on a side trip to the Pyramids, he found himself in Cairo when Colonel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company. Impressed by the Egyptian leader's hypnotic rhetoric over tumultuous crowds, Louis returned from Germany with an interest in Arab and African nationalism. In 1960 he shifted his post-graduate studies from Harvard, where he had formed lasting friendships with Rupert Emerson and Ernest May, to Oxford, where, he was advised'they knew something about Africa'. The'home of lost causes' was not perhaps the best place to study African nationalism, 3 but it was not a bad place to study colonial administration. The formative stage of his career, perhaps of his life, had