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Crisis of Empire

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441144692
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Crisis of Empire written by Jeremy Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two is crucial to this history. This book focuses on a key period in their relationship that moulded the character of the British Empire, the USA and the way the two have interacted since. The rise and crises of empires will always fascinate the observer because in their fate we see much of human history. Certainly the struggle for empire in the 18th Century was key to the fate of North America. British victory followed by the American Revolution helped to define the modern world. The European nations of Britain, France and Spain were eager for predominance and the trappings of trade, land and prestige. Within North America, there were the local agents of these powers and their subjects, who in turn held their own interests and views; whilst the Native Americans were more than simply the passive victims of European expansion. This fascinating and complex story is told by Black with narrative drive and scholarly acumen.

Britain's Crisis of Empire

Author : Rajani Palme Dutt
Publisher : London : Lawrence & Wishart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Crisis of Empire written by Rajani Palme Dutt and published by London : Lawrence & Wishart. This book was released on 1950 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22

Author : Keith Jeffery
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719017179
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22 by : Keith Jeffery

Download or read book The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22 written by Keith Jeffery and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empire at war -- Weakness of the home base -- Imperial problems old and new -- Searching for imperial manpower -- The Irish ulcer -- India -- The defence of Suez -- Persia and Mesopotamia -- Conclusion.

Crisis of Empire

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847252435
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Crisis of Empire written by Jeremy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of the changing relationship between Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations.

The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III

Author : James M. Vaughn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020826X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III by : James M. Vaughn

Download or read book The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III written by James M. Vaughn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the scholarly consensus that British India and the Second Empire were founded in "a fit of absence of mind." He instead argues that the origins of the Raj and the largest empire of the modern world were rooted in political conflicts and movements in Britain. It was British conservatives who shaped the Second Empire into one of conquest and dominion, emphasizing the extraction of resources and the subjugation of colonial populations. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Vaughn shows how the East India Company was transformed from a corporation into an imperial power in the service of British political forces opposed to the rising radicalism of the period. The Company's dominion in Bengal, where it raised territorial revenue and maintained a large army, was an autocratic bulwark of Britain's established order. A major work of political and imperial history, this volume offers an important new understanding of the era and its global ramifications.

Crisis of Empire

Author : Ian R. Christie
Publisher : London : E. Arnold (Publishers)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis of Empire written by Ian R. Christie and published by London : E. Arnold (Publishers). This book was released on 1966 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crisis of the British Empire

Author : David Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857043207
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Crisis of the British Empire written by David Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880 the British empire was at its peak of stability. no other people ¿ not rome,nor spain nor russia ¿ had spread their power so substantially over all fivecontinents. And yet within less than a century, the vast imperial system had crumbledleaving the Commonwealth as the mere ghost of its predecessor.in this groundbreaking new study, David nicholson asks if this decline wasinevitable, or ¿ had Britain¿s rulers taken different decisions, encouraged trendsor sought to prevent them ¿ whether the strength and cohesion of the empirecould have been maintained. He examines, in particular, a series of turning pointswhich he believes to have been crucial to this process: the failure to deal withirish Home rule; over-extension in Africa; the failure to adopt Tariff reform; theBritish inability to reach an accommodation with germany before the first WorldWar; the strategic and tactical mistakes of the great War culminating in overextensionin the Middle east and ignoring of warnings about a one-sided interpretationof the Balfour Declaration; the errors in the build-up to the secondWorld War and its opening phase, especially those leading to the break withJapan and italy. David nicholson traces the real damage done by the 1939-45 War,leading to the final collapse of British power in india, then the Middle east and finallyin Africa, as well as the weakening of the links with the ¿old Commonwealth¿.He asks, provocatively, if the empire had not failed would Britain havebeen so attracted by membership of the european Community.Crisis of the British Empire:Turning Points After 1880 is a significant contributionto imperial studies and should be required reading for anyone wishing tounderstand Britain¿s position in the world on the brink of Brexit.

Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire

Author : M. Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286291
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire by : M. Powell

Download or read book Britain and Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Empire written by M. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the British government's policy towards Ireland during the imperial crisis of 1750-83, focusing on its attempts to reassert control over Ireland's increasingly hostile Protestant parliament and populace. Anglo-Irish relations are placed in a wider imperial framework, taking account of British policy towards its colonies, particularly India and America. This book reassesses the importance of Townshend and constant residency; the impact of the north ministry on Irish policy; the significance of legislative independence; the nature of British party attitudes toward Ireland, and the influence of Irish public opinion.

The Guardians

Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190226390
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Guardians written by Susan Pedersen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize At the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism stood in their way. France, Belgium, Japan and the British dominions reluctantly agreed to an Anglo-American proposal to hold and administer those allied conquests under "mandate" from the new League of Nations. In the end, fourteen mandated territories were set up across the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific. Against all odds, these disparate and far-flung territories became the site and the vehicle of global transformation. In this masterful history of the mandates system, Susan Pedersen illuminates the role the League of Nations played in creating the modern world. Tracing the system from its creation in 1920 until its demise in 1939, Pedersen examines its workings from the realm of international diplomacy; the viewpoints of the League's experts and officials; and the arena of local struggles within the territories themselves. Featuring a cast of larger-than-life figures, including Lord Lugard, King Faisal, Chaim Weizmann and Ralph Bunche, the narrative sweeps across the globe-from windswept scrublands along the Orange River to famine-blighted hilltops in Rwanda to Damascus under French bombardment-but always returns to Switzerland and the sometimes vicious battles over ideas of civilization, independence, economic relations, and sovereignty in the Geneva headquarters. As Pedersen shows, although the architects and officials of the mandates system always sought to uphold imperial authority, colonial nationalists, German revisionists, African-American intellectuals and others were able to use the platform Geneva offered to challenge their claims. Amid this cacophony, imperial statesmen began exploring new means - client states, economic concessions - of securing Western hegemony. In the end, the mandate system helped to create the world in which we now live. A riveting work of global history, The Guardians enables us to look back at the League with new eyes, and in doing so, appreciate how complex, multivalent, and consequential this first great experiment in internationalism really was.

Crises and the Roman Empire

Author : Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004160507
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Crises and the Roman Empire written by Impact of Empire (Organització). Workshop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late Imperial times.

Britain's Declining Empire

Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521866499
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Declining Empire written by Ronald Hyam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reassessment of the end of the British empire, focusing on the period after 1945, first published in 2007.

Good-bye, Great Britain

Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300057288
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good-bye, Great Britain written by Kathleen Burk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative and gripping book--the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis--Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross peel back the surface of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain to reveal its historical roots and contemporary context. During the spring of 1976, the plummeting value of the British pound against the U.S. dollar triggered a traumatic economic and political crisis. International confidence in the pound collapsed; an article in the Wall Street Journal, headlined "Good-bye, Great Britain," urged investors to get out of sterling. Refused aid by the London and New York markets, the Labour Government under Prime Minister James Callaghan was forced to turn for help to the IMF--a highly unusual move for a developed Western economy. Fearing that the economic crisis would drive Britain into a left-wing siege economy which would endanger NATO and the EEC, the United States and Germany used the IMF loan as a means to force Britain to make major domestic policy changes; when the IMF mission arrived in London in November 1976, it was announced that the price for the loan included deep cuts in domestic spending. Burk and Cairncross uncover the maneuvers of the Labour Government to evade IMF conditions. They also examine underlying economic factors, the political agenda, the rise of monetarist ideas, and the Keynesian response. Juxtaposing narrative with analysis, they provide surprising answers to critical questions and reveal how the breakdown of the post-war consensus on the macroeconomic management paved the way for the triumph of Thatcherism.

The Break-Up of Britain

Author : Tom Nairn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789606837
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Break-Up of Britain written by Tom Nairn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of imperial decline, constitutional anachronism and the gathering force of civic nationalism. Rich in comparisons between the nationalisms of the British Isles and those of the wider world, thoughtful in its treatment of the interaction between nationality and social class, The Break-Up of Britain concludes with a bravura essay on the Janus-faced nature of national identity. Postscripts from the Thatcher and Blair years trace the political strategies whose upshot accelerated the demise of a British state they were intended to serve. As a second Scottish independence referendum beckons, a new Introduction by Anthony Barnett underlines the book's enduring relevance.

Empires of the Mind

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110715958X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Mind written by Robert Gildea and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.

Ornamentalism

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195157949
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Ornamentalism written by David Cannadine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis of what it means to be a post-imperial nation today.

British culture and the end of empire

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119625
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book British culture and the end of empire written by Stuart Ward and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.

Rule Britannia

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785904566
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Danny Dorling and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.