Historiography /

Robin W. Winks, editor; Alaine Low, associate editor.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Winks, Robin W.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1999.
Series:The Oxford history of the British Empire ; vol. 5
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Notes:Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 5A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: xxiv, 731 p. ; 24 cm.

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ISBN:019820566X
Table of Contents:
Introduction / Wm. Roger Lewis
The First British Empire / P. J. Marshall
The Second British Empire / C. A. Bayly
British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Stephen Foster
The American Revolution / Doren Ben-Atar
Ireland / David Harkness
The British West Indies / B. W. Higman
Canada and the empire / D. R. Owram
Australia and the empire / Stuart Macintyre
Colonization and history in New Zealand / James Belich
India to 1858 / Robert E. Frykenberg
India, 1858 to the 1930s / Tapan Raychaudhari
India in the 1940s / Robin J. Moore
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) / K. M. de Silva
Pakistan's emergence / Ian Talbot
Science, medicine, and the British Empire / Richard Drayton
Disease, diet, and gender: late Twentieth-Century perspectives on empire / Diana Wylie
Exploration and empire / Robert A. Stafford
Missons and empire / Norman Etherington
Slavery, the slave trade, and abolition / Gad Heuman
The Royal Navy and the British Empire / Barry M. Gough
Imperial defence / David Killingray
The empire-commonwealth and the two world wars / Ritchie Ovendale
Imperial flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands / Bronwen Douglas
Formal and informal empire in East Asia / C. M. Turnbull
The British Empire in South-East Asia / Nicholas Tarling
Formal and informal empire in the Middle East / Peter Sluglett
Informal empire in Latin America / Rory Miller
Britain and the scramble for Africa / John E. Flint
The British Empire in Tropical Africa: a review of the literature in the 1960s / A. D. Roberts
West Africa / Toyin Falola
East Africa: metropolitan action and local initiative / Charles Ambler
Southern and Central Africa / William H. Worger
Decolonization and the end of empire / John Darwin
The Commonwealth / W. David McIntyre
Art and empire / Jeffrey Auerbach
Architecture in the British Empire / Thomas R. Metcalf
Orients and Occidents: colonial discourse theory and the historiography of the British Empire / D. A. Washbrook
The shaping of imperial history / A. P. Thornton
Development and the utopian ideal, 1960-1999 / A. G. Hopkins
The future of imperial history / Robin W. Winks.