The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III
Subtitle: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 27, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9780199246786
First sentence: At the end of the eighteenth century Britain already stood alongside France, Russia, the Chinese and the Turkish empires, as one of the world's principal states.