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Lord Cromer - Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul
Roger Owen
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-925338-2
Publication date: January 2004 (hardback only)
In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and Calcutta represented the twin poles of British power in Asia and Africa, Cromer's commanding presence seemed to radiate the essential spirit of imperial rule. In this first modern biography Roger Owen charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by today's Egyptians, the real ruler of Egypt for a quarter of a century.
Hardback: £25, discount
price £20
The Oxford History of the British Empire - Editor-in-Chief Wm. Roger Louis
Volume I: The Origins of Empire
Edited by Nicholas Canny
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-820562-7
Paperback ISBN: 0-19-924676-9
Publication date: May 1998 (hardback)
This first volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins and first century of the empire. It ranges from its tentative beginnings in Elizabethan voyages of discovery and New World plantations, to the established colonies and trading posts of the late seventeenth-century. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on every part of the world that was substantially affected by British colonial activity. As late as 1630 involvement with regions beyond the traditional confines of Europe was still tentative; by 1690 it had become a firm commitment.
Hardback: £30, discount price £24
Paperback: £16.99, discount price £13.59
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Edited by P. J. Marshall
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-820563-5
Paperback ISBN: 0-19-924677-7
Publication date: May 1998 (hardback)
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 show how 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 twentieth centuries.
Hardback: £35, discount price £28
Paperback: £14.99, discount price £11.99
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
Edited by Andrew Porter
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-820565-1
Paperback ISBN: 0-19-924678-5
Publication date: October 1999 (hardback)
Volume III 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.
Hardback: £35, discount price £28
Paperback: £14.99, discount price £11.99
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume IV: The Twentieth Century
Edited by Judith Brown and Wm Roger Louis
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-820564-3
Paperback ISBN: 0-19-924679-3
Publication date: October 1999 (hardback)
In this volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery' of empire, and on all its connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods, and services. The volume also explores the experience of `imperial subjects' in terms of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the political map of the late twentieth-century world.
Hardback: £35, discount price £28
Paperback: £14.99, discount price £11.99
The Oxford History of the British Empire
Volume V: Historiography
Edited by Robin Winks
Hardback ISBN: 0-19-820566-X
Paperback ISBN: 0-19-924680-7
Publication date: October 1999 (hardback)
This fifth and final volume examines the historiography of empire, investigating the shape and development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries. It discusses the ways in which public pressures, current events, the personal backgrounds of authors, the existing literature, and even the nature of university and library development have influenced writings about empire broadly, and the British Empire specifically.
Hardback: £45, discount price £36
Paperback: £16.99, discount price £13.59
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