The Making And Unmaking Of Empires
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The Making And Unmaking Of Empires
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Author : P. J. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-27
The Making And Unmaking Of Empires written by P. J. Marshall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-27 with History categories.
In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a common focus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one. In both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent enmity of France, Britain sought to secure the interests overseas which were thought to contribute so much to her wealth and power. This involved imposing a greater degree of control over colonies in America and over the East India Company and its new possessions in India. Aspirations to greater control also reflected an increasing confidence in Britain's capacity to regulate the affairs of subject peoples, especially through parliament. If British objectives throughout the world were generally similar, whether they could be achieved depended on the support or at least acquiescence of those they tried to rule. Much of this book is concerned with bringing together the findings of the rich historical writing on both post-Mughal India and late colonial America to assess the strengths and weaknesses of empire in different parts of the world. In North America potential allies who were closely linked to Britain in beliefs, culture and economic interest were ultimately alienated by Britain's political pretensions. Empire was extremely fragile in two out of the three main Indian settlements. In Bengal, however, the British achieved a modus vivendi with important groups which enabled them to build a secure base for the future subjugation of the subcontinent. With the authority of one who has made the study of empire his life's work, Marshall provides a valuable resource for scholar and student alike.
The Making And Unmaking Of Empires
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Author : Peter James Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Making And Unmaking Of Empires written by Peter James Marshall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Great Britain categories.
The Making And Unmaking Of Empires
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Author : Peter James Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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The Making And Unmaking Of Empires
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Author : s. d smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
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Revisiting 1759
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Author : Phillip Buckner
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-05-10
Revisiting 1759 written by Phillip Buckner and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with History categories.
The British victory on the Plains of Abraham in September 1759 and the subsequent Conquest of Canada were undoubtedly significant geopolitical events, but their nature and implications continue to be debated. Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history. This cohesive collection investigates many of the most hotly contested questions surrounding the Conquest: Was the battle itself a crucial turning point, or just one element in the global struggle between France and Great Britain? Did the battle's outcome reflect the superior strategy of General James Wolfe or rather errors on both sides? Did the Conquest alter the long-term trajectories of the French and British empires or simply confirm patterns well underway? How formative was the Conquest in defining the new British America and those now living under its rule? As this collection makes vividly clear, the Conquest's most profound consequences may in fact be quite different from those that have traditionally been emphasized.
Edmund Burke And The Conservative Logic Of Empire
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Author : Daniel O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Edmund Burke And The Conservative Logic Of Empire written by Daniel O'Neill and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with History categories.
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatismÕs founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel OÕNeill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland.Ê MoreoverÑand against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatismÑOÕNeill demonstrates that BurkeÕs defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. BurkeÕs logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between ÒcivilizedÓ societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing ÒsavageÓ societies from their ÒcivilizedÓ counterparts. This incisive book also shows that BurkeÕs argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism.Ê
The Oxford Handbook Of The Seven Years War
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Author : Trevor Burnard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
The Oxford Handbook Of The Seven Years War written by Trevor Burnard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 categories.
"This handbook contains 38 essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war-Europe, South Asia, and the Americas-treating each theater as distinct from each other but often linked in ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the causes of the war in the interior of America; outline the triumphs of Britain and Prussia in fierce fighting across Europe; and explain how the British under the East India Company came to play an important role in South Asian politics and commerce. The handbook pays due attention to military conflict but does much more than this. It investigates social, cultural, and intellectual developments in a crucial period of reorientation during the mid-eighteenth century. The handbook is notably diverse in its authorship, with leading scholars on the Seven Years' War from Europe and South Asia as well as Britain and North America, providing perspectives from many areas outside an Anglo-American frame. It treats the Seven Years' War as a world-transformative event: important not only in its own right-in shaping commerce, politics, science, art, demography, religion, and gender during the conflict-but also central to the evolving history of South Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the second half of the eighteenth century"--
The End Of Empires
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Author : Gerald Horne
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-15
The End Of Empires written by Gerald Horne and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with History categories.
In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions-what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstream popularity, Economic Citizens unveils the logic of economic exchange that determined Asian Americans’ transnational migrations and national belonging. With penetrating insight, So examines literary works that have been successful in the U.S. marketplace but have been read previously by critics largely as narratives of alienation or assimilation, including Fifth Chinese Daughter, Flower Drum Song, Falling Leaves and Turning Japanese. In contrast to other studies that have focused on the marginalization of Asian Americans, Economic Citizens examines how Asian Americans have entered into the public sphere.
Eating The Empire
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Author : Troy Bickham
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2020-04-13
Eating The Empire written by Troy Bickham and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-13 with History categories.
When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660–1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain—reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. Bickham reveals how trade in the empire’s edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the British Empire.
The Trouble With Tea
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Author : Jane T. Merritt
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-02-04
The Trouble With Tea written by Jane T. Merritt and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-04 with History categories.
How tea’s political meaning shaped the culture and economy of the Anglo-American world. Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of “taxation without representation” was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government. But tea played a longer and far more complicated role in American economic history than the events at Boston suggest. In The Trouble with Tea, historian Jane T. Merritt explores tea as a central component of eighteenth-century global trade and probes its connections to the politics of consumption. Arguing that tea caused trouble over the course of the eighteenth century in several different ways, Merritt traces the multifaceted impact of that luxury item on British imperial policy, colonial politics, and the financial structure of merchant companies. Merritt challenges the assumption among economic historians that consumer demand drove merchants to provide an ever-increasing supply of goods, thus sparking a consumer revolution in the early eighteenth century. The Trouble with Tea reveals a surprising truth: that concerns about the British political economy, coupled with the corporate machinations of the East India Company, brought an abundance of tea to Britain, causing the company to target North America as a potential market for surplus tea. American consumers only slowly habituated themselves to the beverage, aided by clever marketing and the availability of Caribbean sugar. Indeed, the “revolution” in consumer activity that followed came not from a proliferation of goods, but because the meaning of these goods changed. By the 1750s, British subjects at home and in America increasingly purchased and consumed tea on a daily basis; once thought a luxury, tea had become a necessity. This fascinating look at the unpredictable path of a single commodity will change the way readers look at both tea and the emergence of America. “By tackling a commodity we think we already know in its political, economic, and cultural dimensions, Jane T. Merritt demonstrates that the true story of tea is more complex and global than readers might expect. The Trouble with Tea is a surprising and detailed look at how the long-term moral debates over tea overlapped with and offered a vocabulary for the politicized debates of the Revolutionary War era.” —Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, author of The Ties that Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America “Long before Bostonians dumped tea overboard, tea was trouble: as trading companies pushed it and consumers sipped it, tea sparked debates over free trade and dangerous luxuries. With her wide-ranging command of global commerce and domestic politics, Merritt tells a vital tale about how tea shaped our world.” —Benjamin L. Carp, author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America