Imperial meridian : the British Empire and the world, 1780-1830

Author(s)

• Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)

Bibliographic Information

Imperial meridian : the British Empire and the world, 1780-1830

C.A. Bayly

（Studies in modern history）

Longman, 1989

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 257-273

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780582042872

Description

This is a book for students of modern British history and all those interested in it concentrating on an oft-ignored period in the history of the British Empire - the emergence and decline of the Second Empire between 1780 and 1830. The book examines the effect of "empire" not only in the regions colonized: Asia and the Middle East; but also on domestic politics and society and on the existing colonies, such as Ireland, Australia and Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Political and social change in the Muslim Empires 1600-1800: stages of change in Muslim Asia and North Africa
• the nature of "decline"
• population, consumption and commercialization
• Asian routes to commercial agriculture
• the rise of the provincial elites. Part 2 Crisis and reorganization in Muslim Asia: imperial dissolution and tribal "breakout"
• the new states of the mid 18th century
• building regional identities
• Asian "mercantilism"
• the Asian crisis and European power
• wars of "monopoly" in southeast Asia
• southeast Asia - a frontier for European and Chinese expansion
• the fall of Mataram and the rise of the Companies
• port kings and merchants - Malaysia and south India
• monopoly and state-building in Ceylon
• "proto-capitalism" in Asia and European imperialism. Part 3 War, empire and the colonies of settlement to 1790: the "British Empire in Europe"
• inverted patriotism - the case of Scotland
• aborted integration - Ireland in the 18th century
• the Atlantic Empire
• the imperial crisis and international war 1776-1783. Part 4 Britain's new imperial age: crown and nation at home and abroad
• an imperial revolution in government?
• "agrarian patriotism" and the "British Empire in Europe"
• an imperial army and police. Part 5 Imperial Britain - personnel and ideas: the imperial elite and gentry resurgence
• the Church militant, race and law
• racial hierarchy and benevolence
• agrarian patriotism and freehold. Part 6 The world crisis, 1780-1820: ideologies and ethnicities
• liberty, equality, fraternity
• Christian revivalism and the "wreck of nations"
• Islam in contest
• economic disruption and world crisis. Part 7 Proconsular despotism - the British Empire, 1800-1840: the proconsular regimes
• Ireland and the Mediterranean
• Southern Africa
• Canada, Australia and the Caribbean
• the "Regency Empire in the East" - India, Indonesia and Ceylon. Part 8 Colonial society in the early 19th century: land, labour and trade
• social involution and the reconstruction of bondage
• new fields for indigenous capital
• the new states alongside the British colonial world
• the decline of the second British empire, 1830-1860.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780582494381

Description

In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1. Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600-1800. 2. Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia. 3. War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790. 4. Britain's New Imperial Age. 5. Imperial Britain: Personnel and Ideas. 6. The World Crisis, 1780-1820. 7. Proconsular Despotisms: the British empire, c. 1800-40. 8. Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century. Conclusion. Select Bibliography. Maps. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA07623978
• ISBN:
  • 0582042879
  • 0582494389
• LCCN: 88008435
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 295 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA16
  • DC19 : 909.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1760-1820
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1820-1830
  • LCSH : Imperialism -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00568598