Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, c. 1550-1850
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Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, c. 1550-1850
Cambridge University Press, 2015, c2012
- : pbk
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  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
"First published 2012. First paperback edition 2015"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Britain's oceanic empire H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid
- Part I. The Oceans: 2. Geographies of the British Atlantic world Stephen J. Hornsby
- 3. Britain in the Indian Ocean region and beyond: contours, connections, and the creation of a global maritime empire H. V. Bowen
- Part II. Sovereignty, Law, and Governance: 4. Imperial constitutions: sovereignty and law in the British Atlantic Ken MacMillan
- 5. Constitutions, contact zones, and imperial ricochets: sovereignty and law in British Asia Robert Travers
- 6. Company, state, and empire: governance and regulatory frameworks in Asia Philip J. Stern
- 7. The oriental Atlantic: governance and regulatory frameworks in the British Atlantic world Jerry Bannister
- Part III. Diplomatic and Military Relations: 8. Subjects, clients, allies or mercenaries? The British use of Irish and Amerindian military power, 1500-1800 Wayne E. Lee
- 9. Diplomacy between Britons and Native Americans, c.1600-1830 Eric Hinderaker
- 10. Diplomacy in India, 1526-1858 Michael H. Fisher
- 11. Army discipline, military cultures, and state formation in colonial India, 1780-1860 Douglas M. Peers
- Part IV. Commercial and Social Relations: 12. Seths and sahibs: negotiated relationships between indigenous capital and the East India Company Lakshmi Subramanian
- 13. The commercial economy of eastern India under early British rule Rajat Datta
- 14. Anglo-Amerindian commercial relations Paul Grant-Costa and Elizabeth Mancke
- 15. Placing British settlement in the Americas in comparative perspective Trevor Burnard
- 16. Britain's oceanic empire: an afterword H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid.
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