The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

by Porter, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780198205654
• ISBN10: 0198205651
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191647680
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong toChina at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for therulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power. The volume isdivided into two parts. The first contains thematic chapters, some focusing on Britain, others on areas at the imperial periphery, exploring those fundamental dynamics of British expansion whcih made imperial influence and rule possible. They also examine the economic, cultural, and institutionalframeworks whcih gave shape to Britain's overseas empire. Part 2 is devoted to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white settler and tropical colonies. Chapters examine how British interests and imperial rule shaped individual regions' nineteenth-century political and socio-economic history. Themes dealt with include theeconomics of empire, imperial institutions, defence, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science and exploration. Attention is given not only to the formal empire, from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also to China and Latin America, often regarded ascentral components of a British 'informal empire'.

Author Biography

Andrew Porter is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at the University of London.
Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
List of Figures	xvi
List of Tables	xvii
Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources	xviii
List of Contributors	xix
Introduction: Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth Century	1	(30)
Andrew Porter
PART I
Economics and Empire: The Metropolitan Context	31	(22)
P. J. Cain
Economics and Empire: The Periphery and the Imperial Economy	53	(22)
B. R. Tomlinson
British Migration and the Peopling of the Empire	75	(13)
Marjory Harper
Migration from Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific	88	(13)
David Northrup
British Policy, Trade, and Informal Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	101	(21)
Martin Lynn
Britain and Latin America	122	(24)
Alan Knight
Britain and China, 1842--1914	146	(24)
Jurgen Osterhammel
Imperial Institutions and the Government of Empire	170	(28)
Peter Burroughs
Trusteeship, Anti-Slavery, and Humanitarianism	198	(24)
Andrew Porter
Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire	222	(25)
Andrew Porter
British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change	247	(23)
Robert Kubicek
Empire and Metropolitan Cultures	270	(24)
John M. MacKenzie
Scientific Exploration and Empire	294	(26)
Robert A. Stafford
Defence and Imperial Disunity	320	(26)
Peter Burroughs
The Political Economy of Empire, 1880--1914	346	(25)
E. H. H. Green
PART II
British Expansion and Rule in South-East Asia	371	(24)
A. J. Stockwell
India, 1818--1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism	395	(27)
D. A. Washbrook
Imperial India, 1858--1914	422	(25)
Robin J. Moore
The Evolution of Colonial Cultures: Nineteenth-Century Asia	447	(23)
Susan Bayly
The British West Indies	470	(25)
Gad Heuman
Ireland and the Empire	495	(27)
David Fitzpatrick
Canada from 1815	522	(24)
Ged Martin
Australia and the Western Pacific	546	(27)
Donald Denoon
Marivic Wyndham
Southern Islands: New Zealand and Polynesia	573	(24)
Raewyn Dalziel
Southern Africa, 1795--1910	597	(27)
Christopher Saunders
Iain R. Smith
Great Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1870--1914	624	(27)
Colin Newbury
The British Occupation of Egypt from 1882	651
Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot
Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century	644	(46)
T. C. McCaskie
Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870--1914	690	(22)
Avner Offer
Chronology	712	(31)
Index	743