Format:
1 online resource (797 pages)
ISBN:
9780191542404
Series Statement:
The Oxford History of the British Empire Ser. v.III
Content:
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. Volume III covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth Century -- PART I -- 2. Economics and Empire: The Metropolitan Context -- 3. Economics and Empire: The Periphery and the Imperial Economy -- 4. British Migration and the Peopling of the Empire -- 5. Migration from Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific -- 6. British Policy, Trade, and Informal Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- 7. Britain and Latin America -- 8. Britain and China, 1842-1914 -- 9. Imperial Institutions and the Government of Empire -- 10. Trusteeship, Anti-Slavery, and Humanitarianism -- 11. Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire -- 12. British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change -- 13. Empire and Metropolitan Cultures -- 14. Scientific Exploration and Empire -- 15. Defence and Imperial Disunity -- 16. The Political Economy of Empire, 1880-1914 -- PART II -- 17. British Expansion and Rule in South-East Asia -- 18. India, 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism -- 19. Imperial India, 1858-1914 -- 20. The Evolution of Colonial Cultures: Nineteenth-Century Asia -- 21. The British West Indies -- 22. Ireland and the Empire -- 23. Canada from 1815 -- 24. Australia and the Western Pacific -- 25. Southern Islands: New Zealand and Polynesia -- 26. Southern Africa, 1795-1910 -- 27. Great Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1870-1914 -- 28. The British Occupation of Egypt from 1882 -- 29. Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century -- 30. Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914 -- Chronology -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199246786
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199246786
Language:
English
URL:
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