Reviews
'concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide.'R. Fritze, Choice, June 00., 'a valuable reference source'Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol.13, No.3'stylistic coherence and a late-twentieth-century unity of vision enhance this volume'Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol.13, No.3'concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide.'R. Fritze, Choice, June 00., "Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it." --David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement " The Oxford History of the British Empire will take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium." -- The Historian, "Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it." --David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement "The Oxford History of the British Empire will take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium." --The Historian, "Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it."--David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement "The Oxford History of the British Empire will take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium."--The Historian "[S]cholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide."--CHOICE "A project that actually deserves that overworked term 'monumental'....[Features] some very good historians [who] remain committed to the traditional values of their discipline....The volumes demonstrate that a number of the old debating points about the politics and the morality of Britain's imperial adventure have now been resolved."--The New Criterion, "Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it."--David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement"The Oxford History of the British Empire will take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium."--The Historian"[S]cholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide."--CHOICE"A project that actually deserves that overworked term 'monumental'....[Features] some very good historians [who] remain committed to the traditional values of their discipline....The volumes demonstrate that a number of the old debating points about the politics and the morality of Britain's imperial adventure have now been resolved."--The New Criterion, this chapter [The Nineteenth Century] is infinitely more enlightening then anything to be found in the Cambridge Volumes., 'concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, whichmasterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ...scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume anindispensable guide.'R. Fritze, Choice, June 00., "Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it." --David Cannadine inThe Times Literary Supplement "The Oxford History of the British Empirewill take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium." --The Historian, 'stylistic coherence and a late-twentieth-century unity of vision enhance this volume'Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol.13, No.3, impressive ... the overall achievement is undeniably impressive. Under the magisterial guidance of Louis ... a vast array of historians has produced a solid monument of contemporary scholarship.
Table of Content
List of Contributors1. Introduction2. The First British Empire3. The Second British Empire4. British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries5. The American Revolution6. Ireland7. The British West Indies8. Canada and the Empire9. Australia and the Empire10. Colonization and History in New Zealand11. India to 185812. India, 1858-193713. India in the 1940s14. Ceylon (Sri Lanka)15. Pakistan's Emergence16. Science, Medicine, and the British Empire17. Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire18. Exploration and Empire19. Missions and Empire20. Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition21. The Royal Navy and the British Empire22. Imperial Defence23. The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars24. Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands25. Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia26. The British Empire in South-East Asia27. Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East28. Informal Empire in Latin America29. Britain and the Scramble for Africa30. The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s31. West Africa32. East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative33. Central and Southern Africa34. Decolonization and the End of Empire35. The Commonwealth36. Art and Empire37. Architecture in the British Empire38. Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire39. The Shaping of Imperial History40. The Future of Imperial History41. The Way ForwardChronology, Index
