Buch, Englisch, 798 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1191 g
Buch, Englisch, 798 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1191 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-924678-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power. The volume is divided into two parts. The first contains thematic chapters, some focusing on Britain, others on areas at the imperial periphery, exploring those fundamental dynamics of British expansion which made imperial influence and rule possible. They also examine the economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks which gave shape to Britain's overseas empire.
Part 2 is devoted to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white settler and tropical colonies. Chapters examine how British interests and imperial rule shaped individual regions' nineteenth-century political and social-economic history. Themes dealt with include the economics of empire, imperial institutions, defence, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science and exploration. Attention is given not only to the formal empire, from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also to China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British `informal empire'.
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
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
Weitere Infos & Material
- Part One
- 2: P. J. Cain: Economics and Empire: The Metropolitan Context
- 3: B. R. Tomlinson: Economics and Empire: The Periphery and the Imperial Economy
- 4: Marjory Harper: British Migration and the Peopling of the Empire
- 5: David Northrup: Migration from Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific
- 6: Martin Lynn: British Policy, Trade, and Informal Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
- 7: Alan Knight: Britain and Latin America
- 8: Jurgen Oesterhammel: Britain and China 1842-1914
- 9: Peter Burroughs: Imperial Institutions and the Government of Empire
- 10: Andrew Porter: Trusteeship, Anti-Slavery and Humanitarianism
- 11: Andrew Porter: Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire
- 12: Robert V. Kubicek: British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change
- 13: John M. MacKenzie: Empire and Metropolitan Cultures
- 14: Robert A. Stafford: Scientific Exploration and Empire
- 15: Peter Burroughs: Defence and Imperial Disunity
- 16: E. H. H. Green: The Political Economy of Empire, 1880-1914
- Part Two
- 18: D. A. Washbrook: India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism
- 19: Robin J. Moore: Imperial India, 1858-1914
- 20: Susan Bayly: The Evolution of Colonial Cultures:Nineteenth-Century Asia
- 21: Gad Heuman: The British West Indies
- 22: David Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Empire
- 23: Ged Martin: Canada from 1815
- 24: Donald Denoon with Marivic Wyndham: Australia and the Western Pacific
- 25: Raewyn Dalziel: Southern Islands: New Zealand and Polynesia
- 26: Christopher Saunders and Iain R. Smith: Southern Africa, 1795-1910
- 27: olin Newbury: Great Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1870-1914
- 28: Afaf al Sayyid-Marsot: The British Occupation of Egypt from 1882
- 29: T. C. McCaskie: Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century
- 30: Avner Offer: Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914
