Author: Ernest Alfred BeniansPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire
Author: P. J. MarshallPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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?
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Author: Ernest Alfred BeniansPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750
Author: David VeeversPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848395X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A revisionist interpretation of the origins of the British Empire in Asia from 1600 to 1750.
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Author: David ArmitagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521789783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.
Understanding the British Empire
Author: Ronald HyamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521115221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Author: C. A. BaylyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139053501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the Company to transform India into a quiescent and profitable colony. Finally it deals with changes in India's ecology, social organization, and ideologies in the early nineteenth century, and the nature of Indian resistance to colonialism, including the Rebellion of 1857.
The British End of the British Empire
Author: Sarah StockwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070317
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.
Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Author: Sarah IrvingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.
Imperial Emotions
Author: Jane LydonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.
Waves Across the South
Author: Sujit SivasundaramPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679055X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire; it foregrounds a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea. As the empires of the Dutch, French, and especially the British reached across these regions, they faced a surge of revolutionary sentiment. Long-standing venerable Eurasian empires, established patterns of trade and commerce, and indigenous practice also served as a context for this transformative era. In addition to bringing long-ignored people and events to the fore, Sujit Sivasundaram opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history, the consequences of historical violence, the legacies of empire, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short. The result is nothing less than a bold new way of understanding our global past, one that also helps us think afresh about our shared future.