Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500-1902
Author: William Harrison WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James A. WilliamsonThe British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Ashley JacksonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191654094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
A short history of British expansion. 1. The old colonial empire
Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500-1920
Author: William Harrison WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Unfinished Empire
Author: John DarwinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. Darwin unfurls the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways-from the military to the cultural-in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being.
A Short History of the British Empire
Author: James Francis HorrabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The British Empire, 1558-1995
Author: Trevor Owen LloydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781383032093
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lloyd describes the full sweep of expansion and decolonization in the history of the British empire from the voyages of discovery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the achievement of independence in the second half of the 20th century.