The making and unmaking of empires : Britain, India, and America, c. 1750-1783
Deals with a period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in India. This work shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India.
Historia
VI, 398 p. mapas 24 cm
9780199278954, 0199278954
434469569
Introduction ; 1. British World-Wide Expansion ; 2. State and Empire ; 3. War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-1763 ; 4. War and its Transformations: India 1754-1765 ; 5. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire ; 6. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire ; 7. The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures ; 8. The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal ; 9. The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-1768 ; 10. The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-1775 ; 11. War and its Resolutions 1775-1783 ; Bibliography ; Index