Atlas of British overseas expansion
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Atlas of British overseas expansion
Routledge, 1991
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 48 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 238-250
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hard ISBN 9780415019187
Description
With the help of almost 140 maps and town plans and explanatory texts, this atlas covers a vast area in terms of period and passage of time, geography, place and distance.
In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the shift of white settlement.
Table of Contents
Contents include: Bristol and the Atlantic, 1480-1509, Early attempts at settlement in North America, Ireland, 1543-1625, European rivalries in teh New World, 1650-1713, Canada at the British conquest, 1763, British Expansion in India, 1765-1805, The Australian colonies and their expansion to teh 1850s, Trinidad, c. 1850, The South African War, 1899-1902, Canada, 1867-1949, The Partition of Ireland, 1919-1922, The Malaysn Emergency, 1948-1960, The Suez Crisis, 1956, The Falklands War of 1982, Delhi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780415063470
Description
This atlas comprises a full guide to the history of Britain's imperial enterprise. In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the spread of white settlement.
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