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1 de oct. de 2023 · 'The Empire Project is a brilliant and highly readable account of one of the great themes in modern history. It will attract the general reader as well as fellow historians because of the sweep of the narrative from the early part of the nineteenth century to the end of Empire in the 1970s.
15 de ago. de 2011 · The Empire Project is a wide-ranging study of the British Empire that surveys the period from 1830 to 1970. Darwin is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of the British Empire, and this book has been called his life's work and magnum opus.
13 de oct. de 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xiii, 800 p. : 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [789]-794) and index. Introduction : 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 ...
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith in 1776, ‘has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire; not a gold mine but the project of a gold mine’. A hundred years later, his condemnation might have softened. But, viewed as a political or administrative entity, British imperialism remained just such a project: unfinished, ...
7 de jul. de 2011 · Buy The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 Reprint by Darwin, John (ISBN: 9780521317894) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Introduction: the project of an Empire. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2009. John Darwin. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. For more than a century after c.1840, the British Empire formed the core of a larger British ‘world-system’ managed from London.
1 de may. de 2011 · Oxford University's Darwin offers a brilliant modern synthesis of the project's history. The guiding theme is the rise and fall of the United Kingdom's power and wealth -- resulting from geopolitical forces over which the British had little control.
