The Empire Project
Subtitle: the rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521317894
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the project of an empire; title: Towards 'the sceptre of the world' : the elements of empire in the long nineteenth century; title: Victorian origins; title: The octopus power; title: The commercial republic; title: The Britannic experiment; title: 'Un-British rule' in 'Anglo-India'; title: The weakest link : Britain in South Africa; title: The Edwardian transition; title: 'The great liner is sinking' : the British world-system in the age of war; title: The war for empire, 1914-1919; title: Making imperial peace, 1919-1926; title: Holding the centre, 1927-1937; title: The strategic abyss, 1937-1942; title: The price of survival, 1943-1951; title: The third world power, 1951-1959; title: Reluctant retreat, 1959-1968