Author | : Ernest Alfred Benians |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ernest Alfred Benians |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew N. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 797 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0198205651 |
To China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British 'informal empire'.
Author | : Peter James Marshall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0198205635 |
Examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.
Author | : Mia Carter |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 845 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822331896 |
DIVA collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in Africa./div
Author | : Steven Sarson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000161897 |
This first part, volume 2 of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1783.
Author | : Stephen W. Sears |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 759 |
Release | : 2014-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612308090 |
In 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution. Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.
Author | : P. J. Marshall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2001-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191639184 |
Volume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. An international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyze development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series Blurb 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. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study allows us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginnings, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history.
Author | : Timothy H Parsons |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2023-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442235292 |
At its peak, the British Empire spanned the world and linked diverse populations in a vast network of exchange that spread people, wealth, commodities, cultures, and ideas around the globe. By the turn of the twentieth century, this empire, which made Britain one of the premier global superpowers, appeared invincible and eternal. This compelling book reveals, however, that it was actually remarkably fragile. Reconciling the humanitarian ideals of liberal British democracy with the inherent authoritarianism of imperial rule required the men and women who ran the empire to portray their non-Western subjects as backward and in need of the civilizing benefits of British rule. However, their lack of administrative manpower and financial resources meant that they had to recruit cooperative local allies to actually govern their colonies. Timothy H. Parsons provides vivid detail of the experiences of subject peoples to explain how this became increasingly difficult and finally impossible after World War II as Afr
Author | : John Griffiths |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2022-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135102468X |
From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.