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A Study of Empire and Expansion
Ronald Hyam
ISBN: 9780333993118
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
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This look at British activity in the 19th century analyses: the high political concerns of strategy and international geopolitics, economic dimension, missionary activity, racial attitudes, and a wide range of cultural aspects, including sport and the pursuit of sexual opportunity.
This introduction to the history of the world wide pattern of British activity in the 19th century, embraces its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire. The dynamics of this enterprise are considered broadly: the high political concerns of strategy and international geopolitics are analyzed, as well as the economic dimension, missionary activity, and racial attitudes, together with a wide range of cultural aspects, including sport and the pursuit of sexual opportunity. Nor is the personal contribution of some of the leading Victorian figures neglected.
| ISBN | 033399311X | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780333993118
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 498 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Series editor | Hopkins, A.G. | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies Series | | Publication date | 23 Sep 2002 | | Previous ISBN | 9780333577585 | | Writer of foreword | D.A. Low | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | 2002072332 | | Width (mm) | 137 | | DEWEY | 941.081 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 400 | |
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| | | List of Maps and Tables | | | | | | Preface to the Third Edition | | | | | | Introduction to the Third Edition | | | | 1 | | The Foundations of Power, 1815-70 | | 1 | | | | The project of an empire | | 1 | | | | British hegemony and its residual rivals | | 8 | | | | Sea power and gunboat diplomacy | | 15 | | | | Economic enterprise: exports, imports and free trade | | 21 | | | | The importance of the Indian raj | | 32 | | | | The white colonies and the problems of imperial organisation | | 39 | | | | Britain and the American challenge | | 52 | | 2 | | The Motives and Methods of Expansion, 1815-65 | | 74 | | | | Racial attitudes | | 74 | | | | Anti-slavery and the humanitarian impulse | | 77 | | | | Economic and ideological motives for expansion | | 86 | | | | The Protestant missionary movement | | 91 | | | | Palmerston and the grand design | | 97 | | | | The theory and practice of global influence | | 105 | | | | Informal empire in China | | 123 | | 3 | | The Decline of British Pre-eminence, 1855-1900 | | 134 | | | | The Indian Mutiny-Rebellion | | 134 | | | | A decade of crisis for the grand design, 1855-65 | | 145 | | | | The hardening of racial attitudes | | 155 | | | | The Irish protest | | 166 | | | | The occupation of Egypt | | 174 | | | | The response to emergent nationalism in India and Egypt | | 183 | | | | The growth of pessimism | | 189 | | | | Economic retardation | | 197 | | | More... | | |
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