Historiography

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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 r…

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Title Statements

Full title :Historiography / Robin W. Winks, editor ; Alaine Low, associate editor.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 731 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780191542411, 0191542415
oclc:ocn780534735
LC Classification:DA16
Dewey Decimal:909.09171241

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.

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British colonies Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies Great Britain -- Colonies Historiography HISTORY -- World Imperialism -- Historiography Impérialisme -- Historiographie