British Imperialism-Innovation and Expansion 1688 - 1914 by Pj Cain

British Imperialism-Innovation and Expansion 1688 - 1914 by Pj Cain

British Imperialism A two volume survey which provides the most comprehensive and radical survey of the subject. Presents a new interpretation of the forces behind British imperial expansion. Volume One establishes the concept of 'gentlemanly capitalism', examines the growth of empire and many of its controversial episodes, including the partition of Africa, and concludes -- against conventional wisdom -- that Britain was still a dynamic imperial power on the eve of World War I.

'xxx; a magisterial account of 300 years of British history, properly putting Empire right at the centre of British commercial and political considerations xxx;' The Guardian 'An absorbing study of how commerce made Britain commercially dominant' Financial Times

Hopkins, A. G.: - A. G. Hopkins, formerly the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University and now an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, is currently the Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published widely in the field of African and imperial history, beginning with a pioneering study, An Economic History of West Africa (1973), and continuing with two prize-winning volumes, written jointly with P. J. Cain, British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688-1914 (1993) and British Imperialism, 1914-1990 (1993), second editions of which are now available in one volume entitled British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2001).

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ISBN 13	9780582491762
ISBN 10	0582491762
Title	British Imperialism-Innovation and Expansion 1688 - 1914
Author	Pj Cain
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education Limited
Year published	1993-06-14
Number of pages	520
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