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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Andrew Porter. There is no doubt that the Empire provided an important shelter for British exports hit by European and US tariffs and suffering from competition with newly industrialized countries in the wider world. In the emerging ...
Andrew Porter. There is no doubt that the Empire provided an important shelter for British exports hit by European and US tariffs and suffering from competition with newly industrialized countries in the wider world. In the emerging ...
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... that the new economic activities fostered by colonialism were dependent on supplies of local labour, not immigrants of European stock. Since Asian and African peasants expected standards of living and real wages that were much lower ...
... that the new economic activities fostered by colonialism were dependent on supplies of local labour, not immigrants of European stock. Since Asian and African peasants expected standards of living and real wages that were much lower ...
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... that the world's croplands increased by 376 million hectares between 1850 and 1920, a rise of 70 per cent in seven decades. An alternative estimate (Table 3.6) involves an even steeper rise, with the net land area converted into regular ...
... that the world's croplands increased by 376 million hectares between 1850 and 1920, a rise of 70 per cent in seven decades. An alternative estimate (Table 3.6) involves an even steeper rise, with the net land area converted into regular ...
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... that the industrial capitalism of western Europe provided the chief stimulus to the spread of international and inter-regional economic exchange during the second half of the nineteenth century does not mean that large areas of Asia ...
... that the industrial capitalism of western Europe provided the chief stimulus to the spread of international and inter-regional economic exchange during the second half of the nineteenth century does not mean that large areas of Asia ...
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... that the Colonial Office's main interest was to relieve British pauperism, and that slack selection had led to an influx of dissolute women and too many men ignorant of the skills they professed. These accusations had provoked the ...
... that the Colonial Office's main interest was to relieve British pauperism, and that slack selection had led to an influx of dissolute women and too many men ignorant of the skills they professed. These accusations had provoked the ...
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