Author: Sir Gerald Berkeley HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Sir Gerald Berkeley HurstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Author: P. J. MarshallPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191639184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
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. An international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyze 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. 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 allows us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginnings, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: The eighteenth century
Author: Peter James MarshallPublisher:
ISBN: 0198205635
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
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.
British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Gerald Berkeley HurstPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330232231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Excerpt from British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century The imperialism of to-day rests principally upon the desire for union with fellow-subjects over sea, and upon the belief that without Greater Britain the mother- country would become (in Lord Curzon's words) merely the inglorious playground of the world. Its motives are thus the gratification of national sentiment, and the strengthening of national influence. A wide gulf separates this creed from that which guided England while she built her empire. Hardly a flicker of racial feeling brightens the worldly wisdom which led to her triumphs in the eighteenth century. Even Chatham failed to realise that in commercial relations the Briton across the Atlantic should not be treated as an alien by the Briton at home. The conception of an Anglo-Saxon brotherhood, though it dawned on Benjamin Franklin, was unknown in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Gerald Berkeley HertzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"A Free Though Conquering People"
Author: Peter James MarshallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century. Some essays focus on the thirteen North American colonies, the West Indies, and British contact with China; those dealing specifically with India have appeared in the author's 'Trade and Conquest: Studies on the rise of British domination in India'. The majority, culminating in the four addresses on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century' delivered as President of the Royal Historical Society, deal with the processes and dynamics of empire-building and aim to bring together the history of Asia and the Atlantic. The themes investigated include the pressures that induced Britain to pursue new imperial strategies from the mid-18th century, Britain's contrasting fortunes in India and North America, and the way in which the British adjusted their conceptions of empire from one based on freedom and the domination of the seas, to one which involved the exercise of autocratic rule over millions of people and great expanses of territory.
Revisioning the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Author: William G. ShadePublisher: Lehigh University Press
ISBN: 9780934223577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume offers eleven essays on colonial British North America and the American Revolution. Part I of the collection includes essays on aspects of the Revolution that reflect Gipson's interests, while the essays in Part II deal with social history.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century
Author: Alaine LowPublisher: Oxford History of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780199246779
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
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.
Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Jack P. GreenePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139620371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years' War produced a substantial critique of empire. This critique evolved out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviours exhibited by Britons overseas and built on a language of 'otherness' that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies and polities that Britons abroad constructed in their new habitats. It used the languages of humanity and justice as standards to evaluate and condemn the behaviours of both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa or Ireland.
Nabobs
Author: Tillman W. NechtmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521763533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book considers the controversy caused by 'nabobs', and the debate regarding British identity and British imperialism in the late eighteenth century.