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Author : David Veevers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108483957
A revisionist interpretation of the origins of the British Empire in Asia from 1600 to 1750.
Author : David Veevers
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1529109965
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster. In this book, David Veevers looks beyond the myths of triumph and into the realities of British misadventures in the early days of Empire, meeting the extraordinary people across the world who were the real forces to be reckoned with. From the Emperors who determined the expansion of the English East India Company, to the West African kings who resisted English entreaties and set the terms of the lucrative slave trade, to the Paramount Chiefs in America who fought to expunge European forces from their homelands, The Great Defiance retells the story of early Empire from the perspective of the Indigenous and non-European people who held the fate of the British in their hands.
Author : Robert Montgomery Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NYPL:33433071368538
Author : Jane Samson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056270823
This reader of 18 previously published historical essays (all drawn from the 1990s) focuses on the relationship between Pacific history and the British Empire. The first set of papers looks at cultural contact brought about by exploration and trade, focusing on questions of the economy, science, and the nature of British collection of artifacts. Other articles concentrate more on the process of colonization, discussing such subjects as the origins of the first penal settlements in Australia and the impact of colonization on native peoples in Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. The final essays explore issues of culture, gender, and the environment. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425713
In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.
Author : L. H. Roper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107118911
This book explores seventeenth-century English overseas expansion, offering a unique interpretation of the history of the early modern English Empire.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789788
Comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s.
Author : John M. MacKenzie,T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199573240
Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the Empire.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221871
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : Jonathan Eacott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469622316
2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Author : Crispin Bates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134513758
Subalterns and Raj presents a unique introductory history of India with an account that begins before the period of British rule, and pursues the continuities within that history up to the present day. Its coverage ranges from Mughal India to post-independence Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, with a focus on the ‘ordinary’ people of India and South Asia. Subalterns and Raj examines overlooked issues in Indian social history and highlights controversies between historians. Taking an iconoclastic approach to the elites of South Asia since independence, it is critical of the colonial regime that went before them. This book is a stimulating and controversial read and, with a detailed guide to further reading and end-of-chapter bibliographies, it is an excellent guide for all students of the Indian subcontinent.
Author : Gareth Austin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781783276462
Examining the domestic politics of imperial expansion these essays question the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence. This volume brings together leading global economic historians to honour Patrick O'Brien's contribution to the establishment of global economic history as a coherent and respected field in the academy. Inspired by O'Brien's seminal work on the British Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon, these essays expand the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence. The change from the protective Atlantic empire, 1650-1850, to the free trade empire of the last half of the long nineteenth century is elaborated as are the conscious efforts of the free trade empire to develop markets and market economies in Africa. British domestic politics associated with the change and the continuation to the recent politics of Brexit are fascinatingly narrated and documented, including the economic rationale for imperial expansion, in the first instance. The narrative continues to the crises of globalization caused by the world wars and the Great Depression, which forced the free trade British Empire to change course. Further, the effects of the crises and the imperial reaction on the East African colonies and on New Zealand and Australia are examined. Given current concerns about the environmental impact of economic activities, it is noteworthy that this volume includes the environmental impact of globalization in India caused by the free trade policy of the British free trade empire.
Author : John M. Hobson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108840828
Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.
Author : Philip J. Stern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674988125
Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day.
Author : David Ormrod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521819261
A work of major importance for the economic history of both Europe and North America.