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Britain's Empires : A History, 1600-2020 by James Heartfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heartfield, James.
- Series:
- Anthem studies in British history
- Anthem Studies in British History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (542 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part one The Old Colonial System, 1600-1760
- Chapter One United Kingdom
- Chapter Two Merchants
- Chapter Three Navigators and Pirates
- Chapter Four Conquerors
- Chapter Five The English Fleet
- Chapter Six The Slave Trade
- Chapter Seven Plantations
- Chapter Eight Britain's Mercantile Rivals
- Chapter Nine The Limits of the Mercantile System
- Chapter Ten The Meaning of 'Primitive Accumulation'
- Part Two Empire of Free Trade, 1760-1870
- Chapter Eleven The 'Great Divergence'
- Chapter Twelve Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1776-1815
- Chapter Thirteen Combined and Uneven Development
- Chapter Fourteen White Flight
- Chapter Fifteen Civilising Mission
- Chapter Sixteen India
- From Company to Raj
- Chapter Seventeen Opium Wars
- Chapter Eighteen Fighting Back
- Part Three Modern Imperialism, 1870-1947
- Chapter Nineteen 'The New Imperialism'
- Chapter Twenty Little England, Exhausted
- Chapter Twenty-one Scramble for Africa
- Chapter Twenty-two Asia
- Chapter Twenty-three The Colonial Labour Question
- Chapter Twenty-four High Noon of the Empire
- Chapter Twenty-five The Empire at War
- Chapter Twenty-six Decline of 'White Prestige'
- Chapter Twenty-seven From Home Rule to Independence
- Chapter Twenty-eight Defeating Nationalism
- Part Four Commonwealth, 1947-89
- Chapter Twenty-nine Cold War
- Chapter Thirty The Challenge of Colonial Development
- Chapter Thirty-one States of Emergency
- Chapter Thirty-two Britain in the Middle East
- Chapter Thirty-three Decolonisation
- Chapter Thirty-four White Settler Revolt
- Chapter Thirty-five Post-war Britain
- Chapter Thirty-six The Rise and Fall of Third World Nationalism
- Chapter Thirty-seven Cold war climax
- Part Five Empire of Human Rights? 1990-2020
- Chapter Thirty-eight The New World Order
- Chapter Thirty-nine Peace Processes
- Chapter Forty Humanitarian intervention
- Chapter Forty-one Imperialism today
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Heartfield, James Britain's Empires
- ISBN:
- 1839987251
- 9781839987250
- Publisher Number:
- 40031515332
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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