Waterstones The Empire Project
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Price: £22.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The 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. Waterstones The Empire Project - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780521317894
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780521317894
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Author: NW1
Rating: 5
Review: Far more than an update of Robinson and Gallagher this account of Britain's prominent place in the world economy and geopolitical system from mid C19th to WW2 and the decline and fall from the 30s is very persuasive. A number of original insights- the way that focus on the relative strength of the British domestic economy (and its eclipse by the US and Germany pre WW1) masked the continued predominance of the UK in world trade and invisibles is interesting. The willingness to quantify - number of troops for example - is refreshing. And the account of the near collapse of the UK from the end of the 30s till the US bailout is persuasive. The self delusion of the attempts to continue to project power when the substance had gone in the 50s and even the 60s have echoes in recent post-Imperial entanglements. I could not rate this more highly.
Author: Anne-Sophie Dupuis
Rating: 2
Review: Did I buy a new book, cause it seems to me that the book was already used.... Plus, the first time I opened it, it just cracked in the middle.... At least now I have two books for the price of one :S
