The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
byMark Doyle, PhD, is associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax.
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An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
• Provides primary sources that give voice to the people who ran, opposed, and were subjects of the British Empire• Consolidates the most up-to-date research from established and emerging scholars in the field in many countries and at many institutions
• Includes a detailed introduction that succinctly puts the British Empire into historical context
• Offers a chronology of events and episodes important to both the rise and fall of the British Empire
• Provides a broad range of perspectives that focus not only on the white men who controlled the British Empire but also on the many people—such as women, indigenous peoples, poor Europeans, and Christian missionaries—who formed it
• Avoids simplistic assessments of British imperialism as merely "good" or "bad," emanating an objectivity that enables readers to develop their own ideas about the nature of the empire
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The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
Author(s): Mark Doyle, EditorContributors: Doyle, Mark;Abstract:An essential starting point for anyone wanting to learn about life in the largest empire in history, this two-volume work encapsulates the imperial experience from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
• Provides primary sources that give voice to the people who ran, opposed, and were subjects of the British Empire• Consolidates the most up-to-date research from established and emerging scholars in the field in many countries and at many institutions
• Includes a detailed introduction that succinctly puts the British Empire into historical context
• Offers a chronology of events and episodes important to both the rise and fall of the British Empire
• Provides a broad range of perspectives that focus not only on the white men who controlled the British Empire but also on the many people—such as women, indigenous peoples, poor Europeans, and Christian missionaries—who formed it
• Avoids simplistic assessments of British imperialism as merely "good" or "bad," emanating an objectivity that enables readers to develop their own ideas about the nature of the empire
Editor(s): Doyle, Mark;SortTitle: british empire: a historical encyclopedia [2 volumes]Author Info:Mark DoyleeditorMark Doyle, PhD, is associate professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Communal Violence in the British Empire: Disturbing the Pax.
eISBN-13: 9781440841989Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440841989.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440841972Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 760Publication Date: 20180701Series: Empires of the WorldTable of Contents pages: 1 2
- “Highways of Empire” Poster (Empire Marketing Board) 449482
- Howdah (India) 451484
- Indian Decorative Arts 454487
- Music Hall 457490
- Quinine Capsules 458491
- The Slave Ship (J. M. W. Turner) 461494
- Sugar 463496
- Tipu’s Tiger 466499
- Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, India 468501
- Victoria Statue, Hong Kong, China 470503
- Victoria Terminus, Mumbai, India 473506
- Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion (“The Seal of the Slave") 475508
- World War II Commonwealth Recruiting Posters 478511
- Key Places 481514
- Australia 481514
- Canada 484517
- China 487520
- East Africa 489522
- Egypt 493526
- India 495528
- Ireland 498531
- Latin America 500533
- London 502535
- Malaya 505538
- Mediterranean 507540
- Middle East 509542
- New Zealand 512545
- Palestine 514547
- Singapore 517550
- South Pacific 520553
- Southern Africa 522555
- Thirteen Colonies (North America) 524557
- West Africa 526559
- West Indies 529562
- Primary Documents 533566
- 1. Excerpt from Richard Hakluyt’s Discourse on Western Planting (1584) 533566
- 2. First Charter of Virginia (1606) 535568
- 3. Sir Thomas Roe’s First Audience with the Great Mughal (1616) 537570
- 4. Excerpts from Richard Ligon’s A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657) 539572
- 5. Excerpt from Thomas Mun’s England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade (1664) 541574
- 6. Excerpts from John Cary’s An Essay on the State of England in Relation to Its Trade, Its Poor, and Its Taxes, for Carrying on the Present War against France (1695) 542575
- 7. Robert Clive’s Letter to William Pitt on the Diwani of Bengal (1759) 544577
- 8. Joseph Banks in Tahiti (1769) 546579
- 9. Robert Clive’s Speech to the House of Commons on India (1772) 548581
- 10. Excerpt from John Wesley’s Thoughts upon Slavery (1774) 550583
- 11. Excerpt from Edmund Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775) 552585
- 12. Excerpt on the Costs of Empire from Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) 554587
- 13. Excerpt from Edmund Burke’s Speech on India (1783) 556589
- 14. Excerpt from Robert Emmet’s Speech from the Dock (1803) 557590
- 15. Sita Ram Pandey’s Description of His First Encounter with a Sahib (1812) 559592
- 16. Excerpt from James Mill’s The History of British India (1817) 561594
- 17. Excerpt from Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Minute on Education (1835) 563596
- 18. Excerpts from the Treaty of Nanking (1842) 565598
- 19. Mountstuart Elphinstone’s Description of the Practice of Sati in India (1843) 567600
- 20. Editorial in The Times of London on the Irish Famine (1848) 568601
- 21. Excerpts from T. L. Mitchell’s Journal of an Expedition in the Interior of Tropical Australia (1848) 571604
- 22. W. H. Russell’s Eyewitness Account of the Charge of the Light Brigade (1854) 572605
- 23. Letter on the Kanpur Massacre (1857) 574607
- 24. Letter from Chief Moshoeshoe of the Sotho People to Sir George Grey (1858) 576609
- 25. Dadabhai Naoroji on “The Benefits of British Rule” in India (1871) 578611
- 26. Field Marshal Frederick Roberts on Queen Victoria’s Coronation as Empress of India (1877) 580613
- 27. Excerpt from Frances Colenso’s History of the Zulu War, an Account of the British Defeat at Isandlwana (1879) 582615
- 28. Excerpt from J. R. Seeley’s “The Expansion of England” (1883) 584617
- 29. A. E. Hake on the Death of General George Gordon at Khartoum (1885) 586619
- 30. Excerpt from Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) 588621
- 31. Excerpt from William Booth’s In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890) 590623
- 32. Emily Hobhouse’s Account of the Concentration Camp at Bloemfontein (1901) 592625
- 33. J. A. Hobson on the Economic Parasites of Imperialism (1902) 594627
- 34. Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s “Address to the Indian National Congress” (1907) 595628
- 35. Lord Cromer on the Difficulties of Ruling Egypt (1908) 597630
- 36. Mohandas K. Gandhi on the Condition of India (1909) 599632
- 37. Hunter Committee Report on the Amritsar Massacre (1920) 601634
- 38. Gertrude Bell’s Letter Describing Prince Faisal’s Precoronation Tour of Iraq (1921) 603636
- 39. Excerpt from Sir Frederick Lugard’s The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922) 605638
- 40. Excerpts from the British Government Report on Indian Partition Violence (1947) 607640
- 41. Excerpt from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s “Wind of Change” Speech (1960) 608641
- 42. Excerpt from Kwame Nkrumah’s Speech on African Unity (1963) 610643
- Appendix A: British Sovereigns, 1509–Present 615648
- Appendix B: British Prime Ministers 617650
- Bibliography 619652
- Editor and Contributors 623656
- Index 631664
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