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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Anatomy of an Empire an Introduction | |
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| The American Revolution the End of the First British Empire? | |
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| Australia the First Fleet of 1788, and the Subsequent Settlements; Gold, Wool and Responsible Government | |
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| Ireland the Union of 1800; the Agitation for Home Rule and Its Partial Resolution; Problems of Identity as Both Imperial Partner and Subordinate Nation | |
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| The Rebellions of 1837; the Durham Report; Responsible Government; Settlement and Expansion; Inter-Colonial Rivalries; the 1867 Confederation | |
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| The Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 the Economics of Empire | |
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| The Great Indian Uprising of 1857-58 the British in India | |
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| The Jamaica Rebellion of 1865 British Interests in the Caribbean and the 'Nigger Question' | |
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| The Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Britain in Egypt and the Sudan; Gordon at Khartoum, and Kitchener's Reconquest of the Sudan | |
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| The Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881 Bantu, Briton and Boer in South Africa; from the British Annexation of the Cape to the Convention of London 1884 | |
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| Fantasy, Power and the Partition of Africa | |
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| Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897 the Uses and the Misuses of Empire; an Imperial Triumph, or Whistling in the Dark? Fin de Si�Cle and the Problems and Opportunities of Empire | |
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| The Battle of Spion Kop, 1900 Crisis, War and Union in South Africa | |
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| The Suicide of Sir Hector Macdonald, 1903 Sex and the British Empire | |
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| Joseph Chamberlain and the Cabinet Split of 1903 Tariff Reform, Economic Decline and Imperial Preference | |
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| Scouting for Boys, 1908 National Decline, Empire, Youth and Education | |
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| The Unity and the Disunity of the Empire; Pan-Anglo-Saxonism, and the Pax Britannica | |
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| The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement of January 1914 Anti-Imperialism, Resistance Movements, and 'Occidentalism' versus 'Orientalism' | |
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| The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland Britain, the Empire and the First World War | |
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| The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 Gandhi, the Raj and the Growth of Indian Nationalism, 1915-39 | |
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| The 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition Selling and Buying the Empire-Commonwealth in the Inter-War Years | |
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| The Balfour Definition of Dominion Status, 1926 the Empire's Constitution, Trade and Development between the Wars | |
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| The Bodyline Tour of Australia, 1932 Imperialism, National Identity and Sport | |
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| The Fall of Singapore, February 1942 Britain, the Empire-Commonwealth and the Second World War | |
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| The Partition of India, 1947 the Labour Government and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945 to 1951 | |
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| Churchill's Return to Power in Britain; the Conservative 'Holding Operation'; Confrontations with Nationalist Movements in Egypt, Cyprus, West and East Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean | |
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| The Suez Crisis of 1956 the Fall of the British Empire and the Rise of the Commonwealth -� and the Common Market | |
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| Variable Winds of Change, and Wilson's Labour Government, 1964 to 1970 | |
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| The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles at Singapore, 1971 the Commonwealth during the 1970s | |
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| The Falklands War, 1982 the Remnants of Empire | |
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| The Inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, May 1994 Post-Colonialism and the Balance Sheet of Empire | |
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| Chronology 1765-1996 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |