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Subject(s)

• Great Britain—Colonies—History [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—History [Browse]

Series

Anthem studies in British history [More in this series]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781839993107 (paperback)
• 1839993103 (paperback)

OCLC

1437528652

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