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Author |
: H. V. Bowen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 485 |
Release |
: 2012-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107020146 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110702014X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britain's Oceanic Empire by : H. V. Bowen
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Author |
: W. David McIntyre |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 2016-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192513618 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192513613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands by : W. David McIntyre
Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
Author |
: M. Taylor |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2013-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137312662 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137312661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901 by : M. Taylor
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
Author |
: Mark G. Hanna |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2015-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469617954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469617951 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 by : Mark G. Hanna
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Author |
: John Darwin |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 574 |
Release |
: 2012-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781846146718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1846146712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unfinished Empire by : John Darwin
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
Author |
: Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2013-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226038360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022603836X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islanded by : Sujit Sivasundaram
How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
Author |
: Jeremy Black |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300103867 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300103861 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Seaborne Empire by : Jeremy Black
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Sujit Sivasundaram |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2021-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226790411 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022679041X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Waves Across the South by : Sujit Sivasundaram
"Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--
Author |
: John McAleer |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1316555623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781316555620 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britain's Maritime Empire by : John McAleer
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain that connected seas and continents, this gateway bridged the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which, with its commercial links and strategic requirements, formed a global web that reflected the development of the British Empire in the period. The book examines how contemporaries perceived, understood and represented this area; the ways in which it worked℗¡as an alternative hub of empire, enabling the movement of people, goods, and ideas, as well as facilitating information and intelligence exchanges; and the networks of administration, security and control that helped to cement British imperial power.
Author |
: John McAleer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107100725 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107100720 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Britain's Maritime Empire by : John McAleer
Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.