History Of The British Empire

Author : P. J. Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191647352

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The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century by P. J. Marshall Pdf

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. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse 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. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. It explores economic and social trends as well as political.

Author : P. J. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521002540

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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire by P. J. Marshall Pdf

Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost?

Author : Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000391299

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De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes Pdf

De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire aims to offer a timely and inclusive contribution to the evolving cross-disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with British imperial historiography. The key purpose of this book is to introduce scholars and students of British imperial and Commonwealth history to a clearly presented and diversely themed evaluation of several "visual manuscripts" – images of all genres depicting particular events, personalities, social and cultural contexts – that document the development of some of the British imperial and post-colonial visual literacies history. The concept of "visual manuscripts" alongside theories of visual anthropology and memory studies are addressed across the entire volume thus allowing the readers to approach with greater ease the discourse on imperial iconography and historiography.

Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199271641

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Canada and the British Empire by Phillip Alfred Buckner Pdf

Canada and the British Empire traces the evolution of Canada, placing it within the wider context of British imperial history. Beginning with a broad chronological narrative, the volume surveys the country's history from the foundation of the first British bases in Canada in the early seventeenth century, until the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982. Historians approach the subject thematically, analysing subjects such as British migration to Canada, the role played by gender in the construction of imperial identities, and the economic relationship between Canada and Britain. Other important chapters examine the history of Newfoundland, the history and legacy of imperial law, and the attitudes of French Canadians and Canada's aboriginal peoples to the imperial relationship. The overall focus of the book is on emphasising the part that Canada played in the British Empire, and on understanding the Canadian response towards imperialism. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, it is essential reading for anyone interested either in the history of Canada or in the history of the British Empire.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349248308

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The British Empire and Commonwealth by Martin Kitchen Pdf

From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.

Author : Edward George Hawke
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015014692142

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The British Empire and Its History by Edward George Hawke Pdf

Author : David Veevers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108483957

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The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750 by David Veevers Pdf

A revisionist interpretation of the origins of the British Empire in Asia from 1600 to 1750.

Author : Trevor Lloyd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855517

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Empire by Trevor Lloyd Pdf

For nearly two hundred years, Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. This is the story of its rise and fall

Author : Edgar Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:57504054

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A history of the British empire by Edgar Sanderson Pdf

Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789788

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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire by David Armitage Pdf

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.

Author : Hazel V. Carby
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788735117

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Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby Pdf

'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.

Author : Andrew N. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198205654

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The Oxford History of the British Empire: The nineteenth century by Andrew N. Porter Pdf

To China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British 'informal empire'.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039884

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The British Empire by Jeremy Black Pdf

What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire, but also a perspective from which to consider the issues of its strengths and weaknesses, and rights and wrongs. In short, this is history both of the past, and of the present-day discussion of the past, that recognises that discussion over historical empires is in part a reflection of the consideration of contemporary states. In this book Professor Black weaves together an overview of the British Empire across the centuries, with a considered commentary on both the public historiography of empire and the politically-charged character of much discussion of it. There is a coverage here of social as well as political and economic dimensions of empire, and both the British perspective and that of the colonies is considered. The chronological dimension is set by the need to consider not only imperial expansion by the British state, but also the history of Britain within an imperial context. As such, this is a story of empires within the British Isles, Europe, and, later, world-wide. The book addresses global decline, decolonisation, and the complex nature of post-colonialism and different imperial activity in modern and contemporary history. Taking a revisionist approach, there is no automatic assumption that imperialism, empire and colonialism were ’bad’ things. Instead, there is a dispassionate and evidence-based evaluation of the British empire as a form of government, an economic system, and a method of engagement with the world, one with both faults and benefits for the metropole and the colony.

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 019515794X

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Ornamentalism by David Cannadine Pdf

Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.

Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191654091

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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Ashley Jackson Pdf

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines the British Empire, reviewing its historiography by answering a series of key questions: What was the British Empire, and what were its main constituent parts? What were the phases of imperial expansion and contraction and the general causes of expansion and contraction? How was the Empire ruled? What were its economic effects? What were the cultural implications of empire, in Britain and its colonies? What was life like for people living under imperial rule? What are the legacies of the British Empire and how should we view its place in world history? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.