British imperial history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potter, Simon James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Theory and history.
Subjects:

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505 0 |a Questions and approaches -- Definitions and concepts -- Processes and places -- 1. Expansion and Contraction -- The `why' and `how' of empire-building -- Capitalists, financiers, and imperialism -- Informal empire and the official mind -- Sub-imperialism and geopolitics -- Decolonization -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Pluralist explanations of empire -- Conclusions -- 2. Control -- Who ran the British empire? -- The colonial state -- The varieties and limits of the colonial state -- Capitalism and the colonial state -- Collaboration -- Knowledge and colonial rule -- Conclusions -- 3. Difference -- A world-shaping force? -- Difference and the Indian raj -- Subaltern Studies -- Colonialism and race -- Gender and empire -- Conclusions -- 4. Identity -- Differentiation versus integration -- Empire and identity in Asia and Africa -- Empire and identity in Britain -- The British world -- Conclusions -- 5. Going Global -- Empire and the origins of global history -- Global histories of empire -- Networked histories of empire -- Imperial and global lives -- CONCLUSIONS. 
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