Science Fiction and Empire

Summary: This book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and misery and force. In the future it will be done with generation ships and off-world pioneers, robots and invasion, electronic sheep and people who just don't want to be pushed around any more. Beginning with a discussion of who 'we' are (hopefully, the good guys) and who 'they' are (anyone who isn't us), this narrative scans the lights of science fiction looking at the places where humans try to touch a variety of futures. Is SF designed to purge ou.

Record details

ISBN: 1846314011
ISBN: 9781846314018
ISBN: 1846315042
ISBN: 9781846315046
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (191 pages).
Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.14 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Place de la Bastille; 1 'What's that poor creature doing here?': the area and the fortress before the Revolution of 1789; 2 'Thought blew the Bastille apart': the fall of the fortress and the revolutionary years, 1789-1815; 3 'The strategy of the generals of Africa shattered': the Restoration, Orleanist and Second Republic Years, 1815-1851; 4 'Where is the noise of the storm that I love?': The Second Empire from Haussmann to the Commune; 5 'Satan's bagpipes': La Belle Époque's forty-three years of peace.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.