The debate on the the [sic] rise of the British empire

The debate on the the [sic] rise of the British empire / Anthony Webster.

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Main Author: Webster, Anthony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.
Series:Issues in historiography.
Subjects:
Imperialism > Historiography.
Great Britain > Colonies > Historiography.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • The British empire: an enduring fascination.
  • Justifying British imperialism: the changing rationale of the empire builders.
  • Capitalism's critics and defenders: early twentieth-century economic explanations of Victorian British imperial expansion.
  • Metropole, periphery and informal empire: the Gallagher and Robinson controversy of the 1950s and after.
  • Cultural explanations of British imperialism I: post-colonial theory and its critics.
  • Cultural explanations of British imperialism II: religion, race, gender and class.
  • The metropole strikes back: the new debate about gentlemanly capitalism and empire, 1980-2004.
  • The future of Britain's imperial history?

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