About the Series: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.
467—99; James Axtell, Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (New York, 1992), pp. 125–51. * Quoted in Kathryn E. Holland Braund, Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with AngloAmerica, 1685–1815 (Lincoln, Nebr., ...
This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power. The volume is divided into two parts.
Volume I of The Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire.
233. 74 Ohlmeyer, Civil War and Restoration, pp. 27, 47, 75. 75 Cunningham, 'Political and Social Change', p. 285. 76 Mary O'Dowd, Power, Politics and Land: Early Modern Sligo, early modern ireland and english imperialism 47.
bestselling biography, Hitler: a Study in Tyranny, which first appeared in 1952, also stressed the view that Nazi Germany was, in effect the expression of Hitler's will.23 Bullock also argued, like Shirer, that Nazism was rooted in ...
This volume of essays, written by notable scholars in the field, examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, in East India Company rule in India, ...
standardized and conspicuously military uniforms. Some of the most valuable commodities offered by the Guides were the opportunities for female leadership and the chance to pursue non-traditional activities like carpentry.
The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between imperial rulers and their subjects in India, but also illuminating the economic, political, environmental ...
A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a ...