LEADER 03757nam 22006972 450 001 9910789485703321 005 20240112113121.0 010 $a0-511-69974-3 010 $a1-107-20577-8 010 $a0-511-63292-4 010 $a0-511-63171-5 010 $a1-282-33667-3 010 $a0-511-63507-9 010 $a0-511-63412-9 010 $a9786612336676 010 $a0-511-63463-3 010 $a0-511-63552-4 035 $a(PPN)274474123 035 $a(CKB)3460000000022192 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000295067 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278037 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295067 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312715 035 $a(PQKB)11141004 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC461122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL461122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349747 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL233667 035 $a(OCoLC)502012512 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511635526 035 $a(EXLCZ)993460000000022192 100 $a20090923d2009|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe empire project $ethe rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970 /$fJohn Darwin$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 800 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-30208-0 311 $a0-521-31789-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [789]-794) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : the project of an empire -- Towards 'the sceptre of the world' : the elements of empire in the long nineteenth century -- Victorian origins -- The octopus power -- The commercial republic -- The Britannic experiment -- 'Un-British rule' in 'Anglo-India' -- The weakest link : Britain in South Africa -- The Edwardian transition -- 'The great liner is sinking' : the British world-system in the age of war -- The war for empire, 1914-1919 -- Making imperial peace, 1919-1926 -- Holding the centre, 1927-1937 -- The strategic abyss, 1937-1942 -- The price of survival, 1943-1951 -- The third world power, 1951-1959 -- Reluctant retreat, 1959-1968. 330 $aThe British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end. 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 606 $aDecolonization$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory 607 $aCommonwealth countries$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 615 0$aDecolonization$xHistory. 676 $a909/.09241081 700 $aDarwin$b John$0324675 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789485703321 996 $aThe empire project$93675977 997 $aUNINA