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The empire project : the rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970 /
British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
©2009 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end. |
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| Notas: | Title from e-book t.p. (viewed February 19, 2011). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 800 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-794) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511635076 0511635079 9780521302081 0521302080 0511632924 9780511632921 9780511630156 0511630158 9780511632242 051163224X 9780511634123 0511634129 9780521317894 0521317894 9780511635526 0511635524 0511631715 9780511631719 9786612336676 6612336676 0511699743 9780511699740 1107205778 9781107205772 1282336673 9781282336674 0511634633 9780511634635 |