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Britain's empires : a history, 1600-2020 / by James Heartfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heartfield, James, author.
- Series:
- Anthem studies in British history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "A history of the many different British Empires - the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain's Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part one : The old colonial system, 1600-1760. United Kingdom
- Merchants
- Navigators and pirates
- Conquerors
- The English fleet
- The slave trade
- Plantations
- Britain's mercantile rivals
- The limit of the mercantile system
- The meaning of 'primitive accumulation'
- Part two : Empire of free trade, 1760-1870. The 'great divergence'
- Revolution and counter-revolution, 1776-1815
- Combined and uneven development
- White flight
- Civilising mission
- India
- from company to Raj
- Opium wars
- Fighting back
- Part three : Modern imperialism, 1870-1947. 'The new imperialism'
- Little England, exhausted
- Scramble for Africa
- Asia
- The colonial labour question
- High noon of the empire
- The empire at war
- Decline of 'white prestige'
- From home rule to independence
- Defeating nationalism
- Part four : Commonwealth, 1947-89. Cold War
- The challenge of colonial development
- States of emergency
- Britain in the Middle East
- Decolonisation
- White settler revolt
- Post-war Britain
- The rise and fall of third world nationalism
- Cold War climax
- Part five : Empire of human rights? 1990-2020. The new world order
- Peace processes
- Humanitarian intervention
- Imperialism today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781839993107
- 1839993103
- OCLC:
- 1437528652
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