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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-system, 1830-1970 (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Empire ProjectMagisterial global history of the rise and fall of the British Empire by an award-winning author.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 15 August 2011
- Format: Paperback 784 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | British & Irish History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Colonialism & Imperialism
- ISBN 13: 9780521317894 ISBN 10: 0521317894
- Sales rank: 144,991
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Full description for The Empire Project
The 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.
