The British Empire
Author:   Jane Samson (Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192892935


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   21 June 2001
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jane Samson (Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9780192892935


ISBN 10:   0192892932
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   21 June 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

General Introduction The Early Empire An empire of the sea Slavery Colonial identities The Eighteenth Century New horizons The American Revolution Conquest and identity The problem of India The Nineteenth Century Trade and empire Reform and empire The British diaspora Empire contested The 'new imperialism' The Twentieth Century The end of empire The empire at war The pioneers: India/Pakistan and Ghana Settler minorities: Kenya and Zimbabwe Peoples and borders: Palestine and Malaysia Maps Chronology Select bibliography

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Excellent, incredibly useful collection of primary sources for an undergraduate course on the British Empire. Charlotte L Riley, Lecturer in Modern British History, University of York


Author Information

Jane Samson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She is editor, with Alan Frost, of 'Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams' (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press; Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999) and author of 'Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands' (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press and London: Curzon Press, 1998).

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