British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 262
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Author: Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: P. J. Marshall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001-07-26
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0191639184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. An international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyze development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series Blurb The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study allows us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginnings, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history.
Author: Peter James Marshall
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0198205635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.
Author: Gerald Berkeley Hurst
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015-07-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781330232231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from British Imperialism in the Eighteenth Century The imperialism of to-day rests principally upon the desire for union with fellow-subjects over sea, and upon the belief that without Greater Britain the mother- country would become (in Lord Curzon's words) merely the inglorious playground of the world. Its motives are thus the gratification of national sentiment, and the strengthening of national influence. A wide gulf separates this creed from that which guided England while she built her empire. Hardly a flicker of racial feeling brightens the worldly wisdom which led to her triumphs in the eighteenth century. Even Chatham failed to realise that in commercial relations the Briton across the Atlantic should not be treated as an alien by the Briton at home. The conception of an Anglo-Saxon brotherhood, though it dawned on Benjamin Franklin, was unknown in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Peter James Marshall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century. Some essays focus on the thirteen North American colonies, the West Indies, and British contact with China; those dealing specifically with India have appeared in the author's 'Trade and Conquest: Studies on the rise of British domination in India'. The majority, culminating in the four addresses on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century' delivered as President of the Royal Historical Society, deal with the processes and dynamics of empire-building and aim to bring together the history of Asia and the Atlantic. The themes investigated include the pressures that induced Britain to pursue new imperial strategies from the mid-18th century, Britain's contrasting fortunes in India and North America, and the way in which the British adjusted their conceptions of empire from one based on freedom and the domination of the seas, to one which involved the exercise of autocratic rule over millions of people and great expanses of territory.
Author: Gerald Berkeley Hertz
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 247
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William G. Shade
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780934223577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers eleven essays on colonial British North America and the American Revolution. Part I of the collection includes essays on aspects of the Revolution that reflect Gipson's interests, while the essays in Part II deal with social history.
Author: Alaine Low
Publisher: Oxford History of the British Empire
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780199246779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.
Author: Jack P. Greene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-29
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1107030552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. It focuses on the emergence of an early awareness of the undesirable effects of British colonialism on both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa, or Ireland.
Author: Troy Bickham
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2020-04-13
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1789142458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660–1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain—reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. Bickham reveals how trade in the empire’s edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the British Empire.