The Oxford History of the British Empire Volume V: Historiography

by Winks, Robin; Louis, Wm Roger; Low, Alain

• ISBN13: 9780198205661
• ISBN10: 019820566X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191647697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Where should we situate the British Empire in the larger picture of world history? This fifth and final volume of The Oxford History of the British Empire shows how opinions have changed dramatically from one generation to the next on the nature and role of imperialism generally, and the British Empire more specifically. In these pages, a distinguished team of scholarly contributors discuss the many and diverse elements that have influenced writings on the Empire. Topics in this vein include the pressure of current events, access to primary sources, the creation of relevant university chairs, the rise of nationalism in former colonies, decolonization, and the Cold War. The chapters aim to demonstrate how the study of empire has evolved from a narrow focus on constitutional issues to a wide-ranging, multi-faceted analysis of international relations, the uses of power, and the influences and counter-influences between settler groups and indigenous peoples. The result is a thought-provoking cultural and intellectual inquiry into our understanding of the past. About the Series: 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, provides a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and takes into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. All five of the volumes in this series fully explore economic and social as well as political trends.

Author Biography

Robin Winks is Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History at Yale University.
Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Introduction	1	(42)
Wm. Roger Louis
The First British Empire	43	(11)
P. J. Marshall
The Second British Empire	54	(19)
C. A. Bayly
British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	73	(21)
Stephen Foster
The American Revolution	94	(20)
Doron Ben-Atar
Ireland	114	(20)
David Harkness
The British West Indies	134	(12)
B. W. Higman
Canada and the Empire	146	(17)
D. R. Owram
Australia and the Empire	163	(19)
Stuart Macintyre
Colonization and History in New Zealand	182	(12)
James Belich
India to 1858	194	(20)
Robert E. Frykenberg
India, 1858 to the 1930s	214	(17)
Tapan Raychaudhuri
India in the 1940s	231	(12)
Robin J. Moore
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)	243	(10)
K. M. de Silva
Pakistan's Emergence	253	(11)
Ian Talbot
Science, Medicine, and the British Empire	264	(13)
Richard Drayton
Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Empire	277	(13)
Diana Wylie
Exploration and Empire	290	(13)
Robert A. Stafford
Missions and Empire	303	(12)
Norman Etherington
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition	315	(12)
Gad Heuman
The Royal Navy and the British Empire	327	(15)
Barry M. Gough
Imperial Defence	342	(12)
David Killingray
The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars	354	(12)
Ritchie Ovendale
Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands	366	(13)
Bronwen Douglas
Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia	379	(24)
C. M. Turnbull
The British Empire in South-East Asia	403	(13)
Nicholas Tarling
Formal and Informal Empire in the Middle East	416	(21)
Peter Sluglett
Informal Empire in Latin America	437	(13)
Rory Miller
Britain and the Scramble for Africa	450	(13)
John E. Flint
The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s	463	(23)
A. D. Roberts
West Africa	486	(14)
Toyin Falola
East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative	500	(13)
Charles Ambler
Southern and Central Africa	513	(28)
William H. Worger
Decolonization and the End of Empire	541	(17)
John Darwin
The Commonwealth	558	(13)
W. David McIntyre
Art and Empire	571	(13)
Jeffrey Auerbach
Architecture in the British Empire	584	(12)
Thomas R. Metcalf
Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire	596	(16)
D. A. Washbrook
The Shaping of Imperial History	612	(23)
A. P. Thornton
Development and the Utopian Ideal, 1960--1999	635	(18)
A. G. Hopkins
The Future of Imperial History	653	(16)
Robin W. Winks
Chronology	669	(32)
Index	701