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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... government subsidies for rapid and secure mails , and by the Suez Canal . In 1830 the time taken to travel from Liverpool to New York or from London to Calcutta or Sydney had changed little since the eighteenth century ; by 1880 the ...
... government subsidies for rapid and secure mails , and by the Suez Canal . In 1830 the time taken to travel from Liverpool to New York or from London to Calcutta or Sydney had changed little since the eighteenth century ; by 1880 the ...
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... government's reservations about involvement far inland . In West Africa , after abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 , commercial activity was sparse , and control of Britain's few settlements passed to and fro between merchants ...
... government's reservations about involvement far inland . In West Africa , after abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 , commercial activity was sparse , and control of Britain's few settlements passed to and fro between merchants ...
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... British South Africa Company : We came to England to ask the Government of the Great Queen to continue her protection over us . We have seen the justice and kindness with which the Great Queen seeks to govern us . We know that her ...
... British South Africa Company : We came to England to ask the Government of the Great Queen to continue her protection over us . We have seen the justice and kindness with which the Great Queen seeks to govern us . We know that her ...
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... British Empire and Commonwealth , Vol . III , Imperial Reconstruction , 1763–1840 ; Vol . IV , Settler Self - Government ... British Colonial Policy in West Africa , Malaya and the South Pacific in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli ( London ...
... British Empire and Commonwealth , Vol . III , Imperial Reconstruction , 1763–1840 ; Vol . IV , Settler Self - Government ... British Colonial Policy in West Africa , Malaya and the South Pacific in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli ( London ...
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... government depended for its survival on a Cobdenite radical faction which was ideologically committed to abolition may have been decisive.49 There is no doubt that , in the early days after abolition , the severity of competition in the ...
... government depended for its survival on a Cobdenite radical faction which was ideologically committed to abolition may have been decisive.49 There is no doubt that , in the early days after abolition , the severity of competition in the ...
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