The British Empire : a historical encyclopedia
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The British Empire : a historical encyclopedia
（Empires of the world）
ABC-CLIO, c2018
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Description
An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the 16th-21st centuries.
From early sixteenth-century explorations to the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, the British Empire controlled outposts on every continent, spreading its people and ideas across the globe and profiting mightily in the process. The present state of our world-from its increasing interconnectedness to its vast inequalities and from the successful democracies of North America to the troubled regimes of Africa and the Middle East-can be traced, in large part, to the way in which Great Britain expanded and controlled its empire.
The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia addresses a broader range of topics than do most other surveys of the empire, covering not only major political and military developments but also topics that have only recently come to serious scholarly attention, such as women's and gender history, art and architecture, indigenous histories and perspectives, and the construction of colonial knowledge and ideologies. By going beyond the "headline" events of the British Empire, this captivating work communicates the British imperial experience in its totality.
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Government and Politics
Anti-Imperialism
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Board of Trade
Colonial Office
Decolonization
Dominion Office
Espionage
Evangelical Christianity
Foreign Office
Free Trade
Gender Identities
Gentlemanly Capitalism
Glorious Revolution (1688-1689)
Greater Britain
Imperial Preference
India Office
Irish Home Rule
Liberal Imperialism
Mercantilism
Monarchy
Navigation Acts
New Imperialism
Parliamentary System
Slavery Abolition Act (1833)
Social Darwinism
Statute of Westminster (1931)
Treasury
Trusteeship
Unionism
Utilitarianism
Organization and Administration
Cantonments
Cartographers and Surveyors
Commonwealth of Nations
Crown Colonies
Dominions
Economic Development
Education
Federalism
Humanitarian Intervention and Relief
Indentured Labor
Indian Civil Service
Indirect Rule
Informal Imperialism
Judicial Systems
Legal Codes
Legislative Assemblies
Mandate System
Penal Colonies
Policing
Princely States
Print Media
Propaganda
Public Health
Railroads
Responsible Government
Settler Colonies
Telegraph
Groups and Organizations
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Anti-Slavery Society
Boy Scouts
British Museum
Chartered Companies
Colonial Film Unit
Conservative Party
East India Company
Emigration Societies
Fabian Society
Imperial Airways
Indian National Congress
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Labour Party
Liberal Party
Maroons
Missionary Societies
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
Pan-African Federation
Round Table Movement
Royal African Company
Royal Asiatic Society
Royal Commonwealth Society
Sons of Liberty
Trade Unions
Victoria League
Volunteer Forces
Zionists
Individuals
Bell, Gertrude (1868-1926)
Besant, Annie (1847-1933)
Casement, Sir Roger (1864-1916)
Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914)
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Clive, Robert (1725-1774)
Cook, James (1728-1779)
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Lord Curzon (1859-1925)
De Valera, Eamon (1882-1975)
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881)
Equiano, Olaudah (1745-1797)
Gandhi, Mohandas (1869-1948)
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)
Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)
Huxley, Elspeth (1907-1997)
Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
Lawrence, T. E. (1885-1935)
Livingstone, David (1813-1873)
Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, Baron Lugard (1858-1945)
Maine, Sir Henry Sumner (1822-1888)
Morgan, Sir Henry (1635-1688)
Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-1972)
Raleigh, Sir Walter (ca. 1554-1618)
Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902)
Roy, Ram Mohan (1772-1833)
Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920)
Stanley, Henry Morton (1841-1904)
Temple, Henry John, Lord Palmerston (1784-1865)
Wolseley, Garnet (1833-1913)
Index
VOLUME 2
Key Events
Amritsar Massacre (1919)
Beagle, Voyage of (1831-1836)
Berlin Conference (1884-1885)
Black Hole of Calcutta (1756)
Boxer Rebellion (1898-1900)
British Empire Exhibition (1924)
British Empire Games (1930)
Coronation Durbar of George V (1911)
Darien Scheme (1698)
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1897)
Empire Windrush, Arrival of (1948)
Great Exhibition of 1851
Hastings, Warren, Trial of (1788-1795)
Hong Kong Handover to China (1997)
Irish Famine (1845-1851)
Kandyan Rebellion (1848)
Mahdist Uprising (1881-1898)
Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Partition of India (1947)
Partition of Palestine (1947)
Plantation of Ulster (1607)
Protestant Reformation (1517)
Scott's Antarctic Expeditions (1901-1904, 1910-1912)
Sierra Leone Schemes (1787, 1792)
South Sea Bubble (1720)
Suez Canal, Completion of (1869)
Suez Crisis (1956)
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Waitangi, Treaty of (1840)
Military
Aerial Bombing
Afghan Wars (1839-1842, 1878-1880, 1919)
American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
Anglo-Irish War (1919-1921)
British Army
Burmese Wars (1824-1826, 1852, 1885)
Committee of Imperial Defence
Counterinsurgency Strategies
Expeditionary Forces
Falklands/Malvinas War (1982)
Gunboats
Impressment
Indian Army
Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960)
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)
New Zealand (Maori) Wars (1843-1848, 1860-1862, 1863-1872)
Opium Wars (1839-1842, 1856-1860)
Paramilitary Organizations (Northern Ireland)
Royal Air Force
Royal Marines
Royal Navy
Sea Lanes
Sepoy Rebellion (1857-1858)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
South African Wars
World War I (1914-1918)
World War II (1939-1945)
Xhosa Wars (1779-1879)
Zulu War (1879)
Objects and Artifacts
Assam Tea Leaves
Benin Bronzes
Breadfruit
Cricket
Enfield Rifle
Eureka Diamond (South Africa)
"Highways of Empire" Poster (Empire Marketing Board)
Howdah (India)
Indian Decorative Arts
Music Hall
Quinine Capsules
The Slave Ship (J. M. W. Turner)
Sugar
Tipu's Tiger
Viceroy's House, New Delhi, India
Victoria Statue, Hong Kong, China
Victoria Terminus, Mumbai, India
Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion ("The Seal of the Slave")
World War II Commonwealth Recruiting Posters
Key Places
Australia
Canada
China
East Africa
Egypt
India
Ireland
Latin America
London
Malaya
Mediterranean
Middle East
New Zealand
Palestine
Singapore
South Pacific
Southern Africa
Thirteen Colonies (North America)
West Africa
West Indies
Primary Documents
1. Excerpt from Richard Hakluyt's Discourse on Western Planting (1584)
2. First Charter of Virginia (1606)
3. Sir Thomas Roe's First Audience with the Great Mughal (1616)
4. Excerpts from Richard Ligon's A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657)
5. Excerpt from Thomas Mun's England's Treasure by Forraign Trade (1664)
6. Excerpts from John Cary's An Essay on the State of England in Relation to Its Trade, Its Poor, and Its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War against France (1695)
7. Robert Clive's Letter to William Pitt on the Diwani of Bengal (1759)
8. Joseph Banks in Tahiti (1769)
9. Robert Clive's Speech to the House of Commons on India (1772)
10. Excerpt from John Wesley's Thoughts upon Slavery (1774)
11. Excerpt from Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775)
12. Excerpt on the Costs of Empire from Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
13. Excerpt from Edmund Burke's Speech on India (1783)
14. Excerpt from Robert Emmet's Speech from the Dock (1803)
15. Sita Ram Pandey's Description of His First Encounter with a Sahib (1812)
16. Excerpt from James Mill's The History of British India (1817)
17. Excerpt from Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Education (1835)
18. Excerpts from the Treaty of Nanking (1842)
19. Mountstuart Elphinstone's Description of the Practice of Sati in India (1843)
20. Editorial in The Times of London on the Irish Famine (1848)
21. Excerpts from T. L. Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition in the Interior of Tropical Australia (1848)
22. W. H. Russell's Eyewitness Account of the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
23. Letter on the Kanpur Massacre (1857)
24. Letter from Chief Moshoeshoe of the Sotho People to Sir George Grey (1858)
25. Dadabhai Naoroji on "The Benefits of British Rule" in India (1871)
26. Field Marshal Frederick Roberts on Queen Victoria's Coronation as Empress of India (1877)
27. Excerpt from Frances Colenso's History of the Zulu War, an Account of the British Defeat at Isandlwana (1879)
28. Excerpt from J. R. Seeley's "The Expansion of England" (1883)
29. A. E. Hake on the Death of General George Gordon at Khartoum (1885)
30. Excerpt from Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888)
31. Excerpt from William Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)
32. Emily Hobhouse's Account of the Concentration Camp at Bloemfontein (1901)
33. J. A. Hobson on the Economic Parasites of Imperialism (1902)
34. Bal Gangadhar Tilak's "Address to the Indian National Congress" (1907)
35. Lord Cromer on the Difficulties of Ruling Egypt (1908)
36. Mohandas K. Gandhi on the Condition of India (1909)
37. Hunter Committee Report on the Amritsar Massacre (1920)
38. Gertrude Bell's Letter Describing Prince Faisal's Precoronation Tour of Iraq (1921)
39. Excerpt from Sir Frederick Lugard's The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922)
40. Excerpts from the British Government Report on Indian Partition Violence (1947)
41. Excerpt from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's "Wind of Change" Speech (1960)
42. Excerpt from Kwame Nkrumah's Speech on African Unity (1963)
Appendix A: British Sovereigns, 1509-Present
Appendix B: British Prime Ministers
Bibliography
Editor and Contributors
Index
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