{"id":1900,"date":"2018-08-14T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2018-08-14T11:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:57:25","slug":"public-lecture-thinking-the-empire-whole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/public-lecture-thinking-the-empire-whole\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture: Thinking the Empire Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Thinking the Empire Whole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Professor Steven Pincus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History, <\/strong><strong>University of Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The history of the British Empire to 1784 has been hopelessly fractured.\u00a0 Each bit of the Empire is discussed separately, the binary relationship between proto-nations and the imperial metropole.\u00a0 This was not how folks in the seventeenth and eighteenth century experienced their world.\u00a0 They thought and wrote about their empire as a whole.\u00a0 This empire was shaped by institutions and riven by debates about how best to run an empire.\u00a0 While some innovative scholars have recently deployed the paradigm of \u201csettler colonialism\u201d to attempt to reconnect and compare similar phenomena, this paradigm is insufficient because it marginalizes the imperial state, narrows the range of political economic debate, and homogenizes both the settler and indigenous experience.\u00a0 By thinking the empire whole it is possible to reinterpret seminal moments like the imperial crisis of the 1760s\u20131780s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Location: Archway 3, 5:30pm, Wednesday 15 August, 2018<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking the Empire Whole Professor Steven Pincus Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History, University of Chicago The history of the British Empire to 1784 has been hopelessly fractured.\u00a0 Each bit of the Empire is discussed separately, the binary relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17443],"tags":[17531,12237,69432,69433],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-lecture","tag-british-empire","tag-politics","tag-settler-colonialism","tag-steven-pincus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}