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Book SynopsisThe volumes that comprise this set assess the British Empire in the light of recent scholarship, showing the creation of the empire in relation to its end. This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed over imperialism generally and the British Empire in particular.
Trade ReviewOxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking. * Contemporary Review *
Review from other book by this author concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide. * R. Fritze, Choice *
Table of ContentsList 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, 1858-1937 ; 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 Critical Perspective 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 ; 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 Imformal Empire in the Middle East ; 28. Informal Empire in Latin America ; 29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa ; 30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s ; 31. West Africa ; 32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative ; 33. Central and Southern 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. The Future of Imperial History ; 41. The Way Forward ; Chronology, Index
