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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 | |