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Title The British empire / edited by Jane Samson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford readers
Oxford readers.
Contents 1. Early Empire -- 1.1. Empire of the Sea -- 1.2. Slavery -- 1.3. Colonial Identities -- 2. Eighteenth Century -- 2.1. New Horizons -- 2.2. American Revolution -- 2.3. Conquest and Identity -- 2.4. Problem of India -- 3. Nineteenth Century -- 3.1. Trade and Empire -- 3.2. Reform and Empire -- 3.3. British Diaspora -- 3.4. Empire Contested -- 3.5. 'New Imperialism' -- 4. Twentieth Century -- 4.1. End of Empire? -- 4.2. Empire at War -- 4.3. Pioneers: India/Pakistan and Ghana -- 4.4. Settler Minorities: Kenya and Zimbabwe -- 4.5. Peoples and Borders: Palestine and Malaysia
Summary "This Oxford Reader negotiates the varied and vital debates about the nature of imperialism to provide a broad history of the British Empire. Selected readings are presented within a chronological framework, from the origins of empire to decolonization and beyond, and are illuminated by a central theme of identity to reveal metropolitan, colonial, and indigenous perspectives. General and section introductions explore such issues as the role of economics and religion in imperial expansion ad rule; how indigenous and Creole populations constructed and expressed their own identities; and what changes were wrought by the process of decolonization. This Reader takes a global comparative approach and includes a chronological table and maps to reveal the full extent of British expansion, enabling the study of regional empire to be seen in its wider context."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Imperialism -- History -- Sources
Imperialism -- History
HISTORY -- World.
British colonies
Imperialism
Geschichte
Kolonialismus
Quelle
Kolonie
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- Sources
Subject Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Samson, Jane, 1962-
LC no. 00069296
ISBN 9780191037047
0191037044
9780191512360
0191512362