The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth CenturyAndrew Porter OUP Oxford, 26 июл. 2001 г. - Всего страниц: 800 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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... Pacific New Zealand: Native Peoples and White Settlers The Expansion of British Control in Southern Africa The Partition of East and Central Africa Britain and the Partition of West Africa Britain and the Partition of Africa, c.1891 ...
... Pacific New Zealand: Native Peoples and White Settlers The Expansion of British Control in Southern Africa The Partition of East and Central Africa Britain and the Partition of West Africa Britain and the Partition of Africa, c.1891 ...
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... Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, and teaches Australian cultural history. Her Ph.D. thesis is a cultural biography of the Australian novelist, Eleanor Dark (1901–85). 1 Introduction: Britain and the Empire in ...
... Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, and teaches Australian cultural history. Her Ph.D. thesis is a cultural biography of the Australian novelist, Eleanor Dark (1901–85). 1 Introduction: Britain and the Empire in ...
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... Pacific, which in their turn were as likely to create difficulties as they were to increase Britain's power. Thirdly, developments in Britain's position as a colonial ruler stimulated constitutional and political inventiveness among ...
... Pacific, which in their turn were as likely to create difficulties as they were to increase Britain's power. Thirdly, developments in Britain's position as a colonial ruler stimulated constitutional and political inventiveness among ...
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... Pacific, the emergence of six colonies in Australia and their political federation in 1901, expansion in Southern Africa and New Zealand, a new collection of white settlement colonies was created. In each, the violent dispossession of ...
... Pacific, the emergence of six colonies in Australia and their political federation in 1901, expansion in Southern Africa and New Zealand, a new collection of white settlement colonies was created. In each, the violent dispossession of ...
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... Pacific, were accommodated by Britain without much difficulty from 1884 to 1890, but subsequent initiatives were more worrisome. Germany's rapid commercial expansion, incursions into the Middle and Far East, her designs on the ...
... Pacific, were accommodated by Britain without much difficulty from 1884 to 1890, but subsequent initiatives were more worrisome. Germany's rapid commercial expansion, incursions into the Middle and Far East, her designs on the ...
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