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Volume 1: The Origins of Empire
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of
the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive
opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North
America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the
reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British
imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History
of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand
the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British
imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the
significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history.
Praise for the series ...
`The Oxford History of the British Empire has been, arguably, the most
important contribution to British imperial studies in recent decades.'
R.D. Long, Choice, Vol.37.
`a major overview of Britain's imperial pursuits'
History Today
`the Oxford authors are now able to bring to bear the enormous body of
research and reinterpretation coming out of more recent economic,
social, demographic, cultural and intellectual history ... The
prospect of the completed series is most appealing ... The standard of
individual contributors - more than twenty in each volume - is
universally high. Almost all of the major themes and topics are
identified and explored in a readable way, and the fruits of much
recent research, a great deal of it by the authors themselves, are
incorporated into the essays.'
N A M Rodger, The Northern Mariner
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