The British Empire and commonwealth : a short history

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The British Empire and commonwealth : a short history

Martin Kitchen

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1996

  • : Macmillan
  • : Macmillan : pbk
  • : St. Martin's Press
  • : St. Martin's Press : pbk

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Empire & after : a short history of the British Empire and commonwealth

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"First published in Canada as Empire & after : a short history of the British Empire and commonwealth in 1994 ... "--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 178-181

Includes index

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: Macmillan ISBN 9780333675892

内容説明

The British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. This account of the rise and fall of the British Empire concentrates on the 19th and 20th centuries, giving the background of the "First British Empire", which was lost with the creation of the United States of America. It relates the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuine world power in the Victorian era, and its ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.

目次

Acknowledgements - Maps - From the First to the Second Empire: 1400s to 1830s - The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century - The Heyday of Empire, 1876-1914 - The Empire in War and Peace, 1914-1939 - The Empire and Commonwealth at War, 1939-1945 - Labour and the Empire, 1945-1951 - The End of the Empire - The Commonwealth Today - The Commonwealth: Problems and Perspectives - Selected Bibliography - Index
巻冊次

: Macmillan : pbk ISBN 9780333675908

内容説明

From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.

目次

Acknowledgements.- Maps From the First to the Second Empire: 1400s to 1830s.- The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- The Heyday of Empire, 1876-1914.- The Empire in War and Peace, 1914-1939.- The Empire and Commonwealth at War, 1939-1945.- Labour and the Empire, 1945-1951.- The End of the Empire.- The Commonwealth Today.- The Commonwealth: Problems and Perspectives.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.

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