The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth CenturyAndrew Porter OUP Oxford, 21 окт. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 796 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 helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire 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. The volume is divided into two parts. The first contains thematic chapters, some focusing on Britain, others on areas at the imperial periphery, exploring those fundamental dynamics of British expansion whcih made imperial influence and rule possible. They also examine the economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks whcih gave shape to Britain's overseas empire. Part 2 is devoted to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white settler and tropical colonies. Chapters examine how British interests and imperial rule shaped individual regions' nineteenth-century political and socio-economic history. Themes dealt with include the economics of empire, imperial institutions, defence, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science and exploration. Attention is given not only to the formal empire, from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also to China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British `informal empire'. |
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... first case , Britain's own constitutional experience in which parliamentary author- ity grew at the Crown's expense , as well as North American and West Indian precedents , shaped from the Canada Act ( 1791 ) onwards the tradition and ...
... first case , Britain's own constitutional experience in which parliamentary author- ity grew at the Crown's expense , as well as North American and West Indian precedents , shaped from the Canada Act ( 1791 ) onwards the tradition and ...
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... first stirrings of independent ' nationalist ' organization . These changes in colonial cultures meant that the terms on which colonial peoples were prepared to collaborate with the British thus began to change , first in Asia , later ...
... first stirrings of independent ' nationalist ' organization . These changes in colonial cultures meant that the terms on which colonial peoples were prepared to collaborate with the British thus began to change , first in Asia , later ...
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... First World War . The temporary defeat of the ' constructive imperialists ' before 1914 avoided trouble and encouraged more optimistic assessment of Imperial prospects . Future promise was symbolized in the rechristening of colonial ...
... First World War . The temporary defeat of the ' constructive imperialists ' before 1914 avoided trouble and encouraged more optimistic assessment of Imperial prospects . Future promise was symbolized in the rechristening of colonial ...
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... first supplier of sugar , though its share had fallen to 80 per cent , and North 2 For overviews see : Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole , British Economic Growth , 1688–1959 ( Cambridge , 1962 ) , pp . 28–38 ; François Crouzet , ' Toward an ...
... first supplier of sugar , though its share had fallen to 80 per cent , and North 2 For overviews see : Phyllis Deane and W. A. Cole , British Economic Growth , 1688–1959 ( Cambridge , 1962 ) , pp . 28–38 ; François Crouzet , ' Toward an ...
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... first reaction to American defection was simply to exclude her from the colonial system , as the Navigation Act of 1786 indicated . Moreover , William Pitt's moves to lower tariffs in treaties with France and Ireland were intended to ...
... first reaction to American defection was simply to exclude her from the colonial system , as the Navigation Act of 1786 indicated . Moreover , William Pitt's moves to lower tariffs in treaties with France and Ireland were intended to ...
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