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The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century, EPUB eBook

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century EPUB

Edited by P. J. Marshall

Part of the The Oxford History of the British Empire series

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Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.

This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook.

The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse development and expansion over more than a century.

They showhow trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia.

Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies. series blurb The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.

It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. It exploreseconomic and social trends as well as political.

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