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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bell, Duncan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
Edición:Course book.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: Building Greater Britain
  • 2 Global Competition and Democracy
  • 3 Time, Space, Empire
  • 4 Empire, Nation, State
  • 5 The Politics of the Constitution
  • 6 The Apostle of Unity
  • 7 The Prophet of Righteousness
  • 8 From Ancient to Modern
  • 9 Envisioning America
  • 10 Conclusion: Lineages of Greater Britain
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.