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The idea of greater Britain : empire and the future of world order, 1860-1900 /
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and southern Africa. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-311) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400827978 1400827973 1282157663 9781282157668 |