The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America C.1750-1783

ISBN-13: 9780199278954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 404 str.

P. J. Marshall

Opis

In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.

Recenzje

...a superb work of scholarship, elegant in conception, vast in scope and eruditon, and of great significance to eighteenth-century British, Indian, American, and imperial history.

O autorze

P. J. Marshall completed a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society.