Darwin John (Nuffield College Oxford)
Darwin John (Nuffield College Oxford) - The Empire Project The Rise And Fall Of The British World - System 1830 1970 - Paperback
Darwin John (Nuffield College Oxford) - The Empire Project The Rise And Fall Of The British World - System 1830 1970 - Paperback
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Description: The British Empire wrote Adam Smith 'has hitherto been not an empire but the project of an empire and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire he argues was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and Greater India which contributed markets manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
Title: The Empire Project The Rise And Fall Of The British World - System 1830 1970
Author(s): Darwin John (Nuffield College Oxford)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521317894
Pages: 811 Pages, 11 Maps
Publication Date: 7/7/2011
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
Description: The British Empire wrote Adam Smith 'has hitherto been not an empire but the project of an empire and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire he argues was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and Greater India which contributed markets manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
Title: The Empire Project The Rise And Fall Of The British World - System 1830 1970
Author(s): Darwin John (Nuffield College Oxford)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521317894
Pages: 811 Pages, 11 Maps
Publication Date: 7/7/2011
Category: Colonialism & Imperialism
