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The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: The Oxford History of the British Empire, III
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Like its predecessors, this volume in an excellent series breaks
with the practice of writing British Imperial history from an
exclusively Anglocentric newpoint. It also benefits from being
written at a time then the dust has settled on the passions stirred
up by post-war decolonization. The books can now be viewed more
objectively. In these volumes, to which more than 50 scholars from
Britain, the Commonwealth and the USA have contributed, every
chapter is thematic or regional. Much attention is given to the
economics of empire, to patterns of trade, migration and defence,
and to how the Empire was seen by the governed - rather than the
governors. Volume III also has chapters on missionary activity and
scientific exploration. The 'long' 19th century from the 1780s to
1914 saw British Imperial power at its zenith yet it is clear from
these books that British governments worried constantly about the
cost of empire, many were concerned about its 'ramshackledom' and
the generals feared that co-ordinated risings in India, South
Africa and Ireland would bring it to its knees. In the event it was
the two world wars which were to decide the fate of the empire by
the way they loosened colonial loyalties to Britain and exhausted
Britain's economic and military capacity to resist colonial
rebellions when they finally came in the 1940s and '50s, though the
speed of decolonization also had much to do with the state of
British public opinion and Britain's relations with the USA and the
Soviet Union. (Kirkus UK)
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. Volume III 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.
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