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Author : H. V. Bowen
Release : 2012-05-31
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 14X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Britain's Oceanic Empire by : H. V. Bowen
Download or read book Britain's Oceanic Empire written by H. V. Bowen. This book was released on 2012-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Author : John McAleer
Release : 2017
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 720/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Britain's Maritime Empire by : John McAleer
Download or read book Britain's Maritime Empire written by John McAleer. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.
Author : W. David McIntyre
Release : 2016-11-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 613/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands by : W. David McIntyre
Download or read book Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands written by W. David McIntyre. This book was released on 2016-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands gives the first detailed account of this event. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states - Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain's relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe.
Author : M. Taylor
Release : 2013-10-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901 by : M. Taylor
Download or read book The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901 written by M. Taylor. This book was released on 2013-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Release : 2013-08-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Islanded by : Sujit Sivasundaram
Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram. This book was released on 2013-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.
