Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1184 g
Edited by Judith / Louis, Wm Roger Brown
Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1184 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-924679-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
Volume IV considers many aspects of the 'imperial experience' in the final years of the British Empire, culminating in the mid-century's rapid processes of decolonization. It seeks to understand the men who managed the empire, their priorities and vision, and the mechanisms of control and connection which held the empire together. There are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical 'periphery' of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of 'imperial subjects' - in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-century world.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Maps, List of Figures, List of Tables, Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources, List of Contributors
- 1: Wm. Roger Louis: Introduction
- 2: Ronald Hyam: The British Empire in the Edwardian Era
- 3: John Darwin: A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics
- 4: D. K. Fieldhouse: The Metropolitan Economics of Empire
- 5: Robert Holland: The British Empire and the Great War, 1914-1918
- 6: Deirdre McMahon: Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1900-1948
- 7: Stephen Constantine: Migrants and Settlers
- 8: Nicholas Owen: Critics of Empire
- 9: John M. MacKenzie: The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain
- 10: John W. Cell: Colonial Rule
- 11: Ronald Hyam: Bureaucracy and `Trusteeship' in the Colonial Empire
- 12: Anthony Clayton: `Deceptive Might': Imperial Defence and Security, 1900-1968
- 13: Keith Jeffery: The Second World War
- 14: Wm. Roger Louis: The Dissolution of the British Empire
- 15: B. R. Tomlinson: Imperialism and After: The Economy of the Empire on the Periphery
- 16: Rosalind O' Hanlon: Gender in the British Empire
- 17: Francis Robinson: The British Empire and the Muslim Worlds
- 18: Judith M. Brown: India
- 19: Stephen Ashton: Ceylon
- 20: A. J. Stockwell: Imperialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia
- 21: Glen Balfour-Paul: Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East
- 22: Toyin Falola and A. D. Roberts: West Africa
- 23: John Lonsdale: East Africa
- 24: Shula Marks: Southern Africa
- 25: David MacKenzie: Canada, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Empire
- 26: Howard Johnson: The British Caribbean from Demobilization to Constitutional Decolonization
- 27: Alan Knight: Latin America
- 28: Jürgen Osterhammel: China
- 29: W. David McIntyre: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
- 30: W. David McIntyre: Commonwealth Legacy
- 31: Judith M. Brown: Epilogue
- Chronology, Index
