[PDF] The British World eBook

Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 155238179X

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Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations created by the British diaspora overseas, while at the same time calling into question the extent of the existence of a "British World." The goal is not to wax nostalgic, but rather to re-examine the complex phenomenon of this far-reaching empire and to shed light on the ways in which it has shaped our world. With contributions by: James Belich Frank Bongiorno Bettina Bradbury Patrick H. Brennan Phillip Buckner Elizabeth Elbourne R. Douglas Francis Jeffrey Grey Catherine Hall John Lambert Douglas Lorimer David Lowe Stuart Macintyre Adele Perry Paul Pickering Satadru Sen R. Scott Sheffield Paul Ward Stuart Ward Wendy Webster

Author : Tim Jepson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1426215533

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This fascinating heritage in breathtaking National Geographic style with gorgeous photographs and artwork, engaging narrative, information sidebars, and premium-quality maps specially commissioned for this book.

Author : Allan Blackstock
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1843839121

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Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies.

Author : Carl Bridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1135759596

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This collection of essays is based upon the assumption that the British Empire was held together not merely by ties of trade and defence, but by a shared sense of British identity that linked British communities around the globe. Focusing on the themes of migration, identity and the media, this book is an exploration of these and other interconnected themes that help define the British World of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0241958512

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Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Author : T. G. Otte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107198852

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Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

Author : Jatinder Mann
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781433187414

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Introduction -Revisiting the British world / Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White -- "The history of this colony is one of dismemberment": territorial separation movements and new colonies in Australasia, 1820s-1900 / André Brett -- Intimacies amidst hierarchies- colonial encounters and the Sahib-subject relationship in the AngloIndian household / Sucharita Sen -- Reading settler-colonial discourses: an analysis of two Ontario public school history textbooks from 1921 / Danielle Lorenz -- Melbamania: Nellie Melba and celebrity in the British world / Karen Fox -- Vasco Loureiro- British world Bohemian / Paul Kiem -- "For gorsake, stop laughing! This is serious": the British world as a community of cartooning and satirical art / Richard Scully -- Agent of empire: Australia's tradition of imperial internationalism / William A. Stoltz -- The end of the British world and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s-1970s / Jatinder Mann -- The Antipodes at the crossroads: Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the great powers at the end of empire / Andrew Kelly -- Conclusion- Why revisit the British world? / Iain Johnston-White and Jatinder Mann -- Index.

Author : Joseph Hardwick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0719097126

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This book looks at how that oft-maligned institution, the Anglican Church, coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. The book details the great array of institutions, voluntary societies and inter-colonial networks that furnished the Church with the men and money that enabled it to sustain a common institutional structure and a common set of beliefs across a rapidly-expanding ‘British world’. It also sheds light on how this institutional context contributed to the formation of colonial Churches with distinctive features and identities. One of the book’s key aims is to show how the colonial Church should be of interest to more than just scholars and students of religious and Church history. The colonial Church was an institution that played a vital role in the formation of political publics and ethnic communities in a settler empire that was being remoulded by the advent of mass migration, democracy and the separation of Church and State.

Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0805093087

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"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."

Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0774840315

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Canada and the British World surveys Canada's national history through a British lens. In a series of essays focusing on the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Canadian identity over more than a century, the complex and evolving relationship between Canada and the larger British World is revealed. Examining the transition from the strong belief of nineteenth-century Canadians in the British character of their country to the realities of modern multicultural Canada, this book eschews nostalgia in its endeavour to understand the dynamic and complicated society in which Canadians did and do live.