Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Subtitle: Sixth Series (Royal Historical Society Transactions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780521772860
Subjects: World history; Great Britain - History; History; History - General History; History: World; British Isles; Historiography; World - General; History - Research; History / World
First sentence: IN my address last year I tried to offer some explanations for the great change of direction in Britain's territorial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century: the failure of empire over much of North America coinciding with the beginnings of great acquisitions in India.