The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire / 
edited by P.J. Marshall. 
 - Cambridge [England] :  Cambridge University Press,  1996. 
 - 400 p. :  ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;  26 cm. +  hbk. 
<br/><br/> Map of British Imperial Territories in the 1850s on endpapers. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-391) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521432111 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95014535 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imperialism--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Colonies--History.<br/>Commonwealth countries--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>941.08