British imperial history /

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:
Imperialism > History > 19th century.
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.