Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century

by Thompson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780198794646
• ISBN10: 0198794649
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-12-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Andrew Thompson's previous publications include The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2005) and Empire and Globalisation. Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c.1850-1914 (2010). He is currently a Council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and serves on the editorial boards of South African Historical Journal and Twentieth Century British History.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Andrew Thompson
2. Britain as a Global Power in the Twentieth Century, Philip Murphy
3. From the Empire of Christ to the Third World: Religion and the Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century, Jeffrey Cox
4. The Empire Comes Home: Commonwealth Migration to Britain, Wendy Webster
5. The Empire and British Politics, Richard Whiting
6. The Empire/Commonwealth in British Economic Thinking and Policy, Jim Tomlinson
7. Social Life and Cultural Representation: Empire in the Public Imagination, Andrew Thompson with Meaghan Kowalsky
8. Empire, Nation, and National Identities, Krishan Kumar
9. Afterword: The Imprint of the Empire, Andrew Thompson