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The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume V: Historiography

Edited by Robin Winks

Editor-in-Chief: Wm Roger Louis

Associate Editor: Alain Low

Price: £66.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820566-1
Publication date: 21 October 1999
260 pages, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire number Vol. V
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Reviews

'impressive ... the overall achievement is undeniably impressive. Under the magisterial guidance of Louis ... a vast array of historians has produced a solid monument of contemporary scholarship.' - David Gilmour, FT Weekend 19/2/00
'this chapter [The Nineteenth Century] is infinitely more enlightening then anything to be found in the Cambridge Volumes.' - Bernard Porter, TLS
'These final three volumes should be compulsory reading for anyone with an interest in the subject' - Bernard Porter, TLS

Description

The authoritative account, written by an internationally distinguished set of contributors
Draws together ideas and material normally scattered in specialist sources

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.

This fifth and final volume shows how opinions have changed dramatically over the generations about the nature, role, and value of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. The distinguished team of contributors discuss the many and diverse elements which have influenced writings on the Empire: the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. They demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging enquiry about international relations, the uses of power, and impacts and counterimpacts between settler groups and native peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into how we understand the past, and whether this understanding might affect the way we behave in the future.

Readership: Scholars, students, and general readers interested in the history of Empire.

Contents

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

2. The First British Empire

3. The Second British Empire

4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

5. The American Revolution

6. Ireland

7. The British West Indies

8. Canada and the Empire

9. Australia and the Empire

10. Colonization and History in New Zealand

11. India to 1858

12. India, 1858-1937

13. India in the 1940s

14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

15. Pakistan's Emergence

16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire

17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire

18. Exploration and Empire

19. Missions and Empire

20. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition

21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire

22. Imperial Defence

23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars

24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands

25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia

26. The British Empire in South-East Asia

27. Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East

28. Informal Empire in Latin America

29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa

30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s

31. West Africa

32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative

33. Central and Southern Africa

34. Decolonization and the End of Empire

35. The Commonwealth

36. Art and Empire

37. Architecture in the British Empire

38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire

39. The Shaping of Imperial History

40. The Future of Imperial History

41. The Way Forward

Chronology, Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Robin Winks, Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History, Yale University
Editor-in-Chief: Wm Roger Louis
Associate Editor: Alain Low

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World history
Historiography
Imperialism

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The Oxford History of the British EmpireVolume V: Historiography

The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume V: Historiography