Format:
1 online resource (816 pages)
ISBN:
9780511632921
Content:
A magisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by an award-winning author.
Content:
COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- MAPS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE PROJECT OF AN EMPIRE -- Part I Towards -The Sceptre of the World': the elements of Empire in the long nineteenth century -- 1 VICTORIAN ORIGINS -- After mercantilism -- The geopolitics of expansion -- Making Empire at home: domestic sources of British expansion -- Commerce -- Migrants and missions -- Bridgeheads of empire -- The Victorian pattern established -- 2 THE OCTOPUS POWER -- The new geopolitics -- The logic of partition -- Managing empire -- The late-Victorians and empire -- Towards 1900 -- 3 THE COMMERCIAL REPUBLIC -- The mercantile cosmopolis -- New frontiers of commerce -- British business in Africa -- The Middle East and East Asia -- Latin America: the swing to the West -- Commerce or empire? -- 4 THE BRITANNIC EXPERIMENT -- The Britannic idea -- Canada -- 'Britannic' Australia -- 'New Britain' in the South Pacific: New Zealand -- Building the British world -- 5 'UN-BRITISH RULE' IN -ANGLO-INDIA' -- Imperial India? -- The Civilian Raj -- Indian politics -- The struggle -- The stalemate -- The idea of India -- 6 THE WEAKEST LINK: BRITAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA -- Supremacy or stalemate -- Kruger versus Rhodes -- The decision for war, 1896-9 -- A British South Africa? -- 7 THE EDWARDIAN TRANSITION -- Imperial grand strategy and the South African War -- Britain in world politics -- The political economy of Edwardian Empire -- The dominions, India and Africa -- The politics of cohesion -- The dominions -- India -- The new empire in Africa -- Islam -- Ireland and Empire -- Part II 'The great liner is sinking': the British world-system in the age of war -- 8 THE WAR FOR EMPIRE, 1914-1919 -- The longer war -- The Imperial Armageddon -- The price of victory -- The politics of solidarity -- War politics in Britain.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521302081
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521302081
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=461122
