Empire : the British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present

Empire : the British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal : Judd Denis (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Empire : the British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present / Denis Judd
Publié : London : Fontana , 1997
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXVI-518 p.-[24] p. de pl.)
Sujets :
Impérialisme > Histoire
Colonies britanniques > Histoire
Expansion territoriale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
  • Anatomy of an Empire: An Introduction.
  • The American Revolution: The End of the First British Empire?
  • Australia: The First Fleet of 1788, and the Subsequent Seetlements; Gold, Wool and Responsible Government.
  • Ireland: The Union of 1800; the Agitation for Home Rule and its Partial Resolution ; Problems of Identity as Both Imperial Partner and Subordinate Nation.
  • Canada : The Rebellions of 1837 ; the Durham Report ; Responsible Government ; Settlement and Expansion ; Inter-Colonial Rivalries ; the 1867 Confederation.
  • The Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 : The Economics of Empire.
  • The Great Indian Uprising of 1857-58 : The British in India.
  • The Jamaica Rebellion of 1865 : British Interests in the Caribbean and the 'Nigger Question'.
  • The Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 : Britain in Egypt and the Sudan ; Gordon at Khartoum, and Kitchener 's Reconquest of the Sudan.
  • The Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881 : Bantu, Briton and Boer in South Africa ; From the British Annexation of the Cape to the Convention of London 1884.
  • Cecil Rhodes' Legacy : Fantasy, Power and the Partition of Africa.
  • Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897 : The Uses and the Misuses of Empire ; an Imperial Triumph, or Whistling in the Dark? Fin de Siècle and the Problems and Opportunities of Empire.
  • The Battle of Spion Kop, 1900 : Crisis, War and Union in South Africa.
  • The Suicide of Sir Hector MacDonald, 1903 : Sex and the British Empire.
  • Joseph Chamberlain and the Cabinet Split of 1903 : Tariff Reform, Economic Decline and Imperial Preference.
  • Scouting for Boys, 1908 : National Decline, Empire, Youth and Education.
  • The Imperial Conference of 1911 : The Unity and the Disunity of the Empire ; Pan-Anglo-Saxonism, and the Pax Britannica.
  • The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement of January 1914 : Anti-Imperialism, Resistance Movements, and 'Occidentalism' versus 'Orientalism'.
  • The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland : Britain, the Empire and the First World War.
  • The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 : Gandhi, the Raj and the Growth of Indian Nationalism, 1915-39.
  • The 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition : Selling and Buying the Empire-Commonwealth in the Inter-War Years.
  • The Balfour Definition of Dominion Status, 1926 : The Empire's Constitution, Trade and Development Between the Wars.
  • The Bodyline Tour of Australia, 1932 : Imperialism, National Identity and Sport.
  • The Fall of Singapore, February 1942 : Britain, the Empire-Commonwealth and the Second World War.
  • The Partition of India, 1947 : The Conservative 'Holding Operation' ; Confrontations with Nationalist Movements in Egypt, Cyprus, West and East Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
  • The Suez Crisis of 1956 : The Fall of the British Empire and the Rise of the Commonwealth -and the Common Market.
  • Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independance, November 1965 : Variable Winds of Change, ans Wilson's Labour Government, 1964 to 1970.
  • The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles at Singapore, 1971 : The Commonwealth During the 1970s.
  • The Falkslands War, 1982 : The Remmants of Empire.
  • The Inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, May 1994 : Post-colonialism and the Balance Sheet of Empire.