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

Zusatztext ...a superb work of scholarship, elegant in conception, vast in scope and eruditon, and of great significance to eighteenth-century British, Indian, American, and imperial history. Informationen zum Autor P. J. Marshall completed a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society. Klappentext )Britain, India & America 1750-1783(. Zusammenfassung Deals with a period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in India. This work shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: British World-Wide Expansion 2: State and Empire 3: War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-1763 4: War and its Transformations: India 1754-1765 5: Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire 6: Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire 7: The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures 8: The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal 9: The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-1768 10: The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-1775 11: War and its Resolutions 1775-1783 Bibliography Index

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• Autori: P J Marshall, P. J. Marshall, P.J. Marshall, P.j. (Emeritus Professor of History At K Marshall, Prof. P. J. Marshall
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.04.2005
• EAN: 9780199278954
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927895-4
• Pagine: 410
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Asian History, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800