Making and Unmaking of Empires Britain, India, and America C. 1750-1783

Name: Making and Unmaking of Empires Britain, India, and America C. 1750-1783
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ISBN: 9780199226665

ISBN-10: 0199226660

ISBN-13: 9780199226665

Edition: 2007

Authors: P. J. Marshall

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In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a common focus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain'simperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one.In both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent…

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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction1. British World-Wide Expansion2. State and Empire3. War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-17634. War and its Transformations: India 1754-17655. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire6. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire7. The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures8. The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal9. The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-176810. The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-177511. War and its Resolutions 1775-1783BibliographyIndex