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The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire / edited by P.J. Marshall.

Contributor(s): Marshall, P. J. (Peter James).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1996Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521432111.Subject(s): Imperialism -- History | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History | Commonwealth countries -- HistoryDDC classification: 941.08
Contents:
Introduction: The world shaped by Empire / P.J. Marshall -- Part I: The History of the Empire -- The British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century / P. J. Marshall -- 1783-1870: An expanding empire / P. J. Marshall -- 1870-1918: The Empire under threat / P. J. Marshall -- 1918 to the 1960s: Keeping afloat / P.J. Marshall -- Part II: The Life of the Empire -- For richer, for poorer? / David Fieldhouse -- Power, Authority and Freedom / A. J. Stockwell -- Empires in the Mind / Andrew Porter -- Imperial Towns and Cities / Thomas R. Metcalf -- British emigration and new identities / Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline -- The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians / P. J. Marshall -- Art and the Empire / John M. MacKenzie -- Part III: The Imperial Experience -- Imperial Britain / P. J. Marshall -- Australia / K.S. Inglis -- Africa / Toyin Falola -- British Rule in India: An Assessment / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Conclusion: Empire in retrospect / P. J. Marshall.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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?

Map of British Imperial Territories in the 1850s on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-391) and index.

Introduction: The world shaped by Empire / P.J. Marshall -- Part I: The History of the Empire -- The British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century / P. J. Marshall -- 1783-1870: An expanding empire / P. J. Marshall -- 1870-1918: The Empire under threat / P. J. Marshall -- 1918 to the 1960s: Keeping afloat / P.J. Marshall -- Part II: The Life of the Empire -- For richer, for poorer? / David Fieldhouse -- Power, Authority and Freedom / A. J. Stockwell -- Empires in the Mind / Andrew Porter -- Imperial Towns and Cities / Thomas R. Metcalf -- British emigration and new identities / Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline -- The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians / P. J. Marshall -- Art and the Empire / John M. MacKenzie -- Part III: The Imperial Experience -- Imperial Britain / P. J. Marshall -- Australia / K.S. Inglis -- Africa / Toyin Falola -- British Rule in India: An Assessment / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Conclusion: Empire in retrospect / P. J. Marshall.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: the world shaped by empire
  • Part I The History of Empire
  • 1 he British empire at the end of the eighteenth century
  • 2 783-1870: an expanding empire
  • 3 870-1918: the empire under threat
  • 4 918 to the 1960s: keeping afloat
  • Part II The Life of the Empire
  • 5 For richer, for poorer?
  • 6 Power, authority, and freedom
  • 7 Empires in the mind
  • 8 Imperial towns and cities
  • 9 British emigration and new identities
  • 10 The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians
  • 11 Art and the empire
  • Part III The Imperial Experience
  • 12 Imperial Britain
  • 13 Australia
  • 14 Africa
  • 15 British rule in India: an assessment Tapan Raychaudhuri; Conclusion: Empire in retrospect
  • Reference Guide: British imperial territories from 1783
  • Further reading
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

Although the sun has set on the British Empire, it keeps rising over its globe-spanning legacy in the former colonies' language, political boundaries, economics, and ethnic composition. Marshall has devoted his academic career to that legacy, experience that lends comfortable reliability to this history. It is divided in half: he writes a concise narrative spanning the empire's recovery from losing its American colonies, its circa 1890s apogee, through its post^-World War II dismantlement. He then turns over the reins to specialists in themes of the empire, ranging from how it was ruled, whether it degraded or enriched the places it ruled, and even the art and architecture it inspired. The latter occasions a profuse burst of the paintings and photographs with which this handsome tome is endowed throughout. Although controversial, British imperialism is less profitably written of as a good or bad thing, as Marshall often remarks, than as a muddled, occasionally positive phase of history with effects as idiosyncratic as the myriad places over which the Union Jack flew. That variety infuses this attractively styled, balanced work. --Gilbert Taylor

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