The Oxford History of the British Empire : Volume II: The Eighteenth Century [ electronic resource ] / by P. J. Marshall and Alaine Low.
By: Marshall, P. J.
Contributor(s): Low, Alaine [joint author].
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TextPublisher: Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011ISBN: 9780198205630 ( e-book ).Subject(s): British and Irish Modern History | History | World Modern HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic booksOnline resources: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205630.001.0001 View to click Summary: This book is volume II of a series detailing the history of the British Empire and it 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. Chapters trace and analyse the development and expansion of the British Empire 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 an empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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This book is volume II of a series detailing the history of the British Empire and it 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. Chapters trace and analyse the development and expansion of the British Empire 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 an empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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