The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography
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Product details:
- Edition number and title :Volume V: Historiography
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 July 2001
- ISBN 9780199246809
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages756 pages
- Size 235x155x38 mm
- Weight 1044 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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. This fifth and final volume examines the historiography of empire, investigating the shape and development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries. It discusses the ways in which public pressures, current events, the personal backgrounds of authors, the existing literature, and even the nature of university and library development have influenced writings about empire broadly, and the British Empire specifically.
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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.
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.
Oxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for thie massive undertaking.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Introduction
The First British Empire
The Second British Empire
British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The American Revolution
Ireland
The British West Indies
Canada and the Empire
Australia and the Empire
Colonization and History in New Zealand
India to 1858
India, 1858-1937
India in the 1940s
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Pakistan's Emergence
Science, Medicine, and the British Empire
Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire
Exploration and Empire
Missions and Empire
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition
The Royal Navy and the British Empire
Imperial Defence
The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars
Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands
Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia
The British Empire in South-East Asia
Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East
Informal Empire in Latin America
Britain and the Scramble for Africa
The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s
West Africa
East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative
Central and Southern Africa
Decolonization and the End of Empire
The Commonwealth
Art and Empire
Architecture in the British Empire
Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire
The Shaping of Imperial History
The Future of Imperial History
The Way Forward
Chronology, Index
