Historiography
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 helps us tounderstand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers
1 online resource (xxiv, 731 pages)
9780191542411, 0191542415
780534735
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The First British Empire; 3. The Second British Empire; 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, 1858 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