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The Oxford history of the British Empire. Vol. 5, Historiography /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Winks, Robin W. (Robin William), 1930-, Louis, William Roger, 1936-, Low, Alaine M., Canny, Nicholas P., Marshall, P. J. (Peter James)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Impérialisme > Histoire.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
British colonies.
Imperialism.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The First British Empire
  • 3. The Second British Empire
  • Historiographical Traditions
  • Historical Interpretations, 1950-1980
  • Periodizing the British Empires
  • Historical Interpretations in the 1980s and 1990s
  • 4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 5. The American Revolution
  • 6. Ireland
  • 7. The British West Indies
  • 8. Canada and the Empire
  • 9. Australia and the Empire
  • 10. Colonization and History in New Zealand
  • 11. India to 1858
  • 12. India, 1958 to the 1930s
  • 13. India in the 1940s
  • 14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
  • 15. Pakistan's Emergence
  • 16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire
  • 17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Empire
  • 18. Exploration and Empire
  • 19. Missions and Empire
  • 20. Slavery, The Slave Trade, and Abolition
  • 21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire
  • Arthur J. Marder
  • Gerald S. Graham
  • J.C. Beaglehole and the Pacific
  • Unfinished Business
  • 22. Imperial Defence
  • 23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars
  • 24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands
  • 25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia
  • 26. The British Empire in South-East Asia
  • 27. Formal and Informal Empire in the Middle East
  • 28. Informal Empire in Latin America
  • The Literature Before 1950
  • Theories and Concepts
  • Research in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Broadening Horizons
  • 29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa
  • 30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s
  • Amateur Beginnings
  • Since 1967
  • 31. West Africa
  • Post-Second World War Scholarship
  • 32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative
  • 33. Southern and Central Africa
  • 34. Decolonization and the End of Empire
  • 35. The Commonwealth
  • 36. Art and Empire
  • 37. Architecture in the British Empire
  • 38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire
  • 39. The Shaping of Imperial History
  • 40. Development and the Utopian Ideal, 1960-1999
  • 41. The Future of Imperial History
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • INDEX
  • Last Page.