Imperial Meridian
British Empire and the World, 1780-1830
C. A. Bayly(Author)
Longman (Publisher)
Published on 5. June 1989
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-582-04287-2 (ISBN)
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Description
This is a book for students of modern British history and all those interested in it concentrating on an oft-ignored period in the history of the British Empire - the emergence and decline of the Second Empire between 1780 and 1830. The book examines the effect of "empire" not only in the regions colonized: Asia and the Middle East; but also on domestic politics and society and on the existing colonies, such as Ireland, Australia and Southern Africa.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
maps, glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-04287-2 (9780582042872)
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Content
Part 1 Political and social change in the Muslim Empires 1600-1800: stages of change in Muslim Asia and North Africa; the nature of "decline"; population, consumption and commercialization; Asian routes to commercial agriculture; the rise of the provincial elites. Part 2 Crisis and reorganization in Muslim Asia: imperial dissolution and tribal "breakout"; the new states of the mid 18th century; building regional identities; Asian "mercantilism"; the Asian crisis and European power; wars of "monopoly" in southeast Asia; southeast Asia - a frontier for European and Chinese expansion; the fall of Mataram and the rise of the Companies; port kings and merchants - Malaysia and south India; monopoly and state-building in Ceylon; "proto-capitalism" in Asia and European imperialism. Part 3 War, empire and the colonies of settlement to 1790: the "British Empire in Europe"; inverted patriotism - the case of Scotland; aborted integration - Ireland in the 18th century; the Atlantic Empire; the imperial crisis and international war 1776-1783. Part 4 Britain's new imperial age: crown and nation at home and abroad; an imperial revolution in government?; "agrarian patriotism" and the "British Empire in Europe"; an imperial army and police. Part 5 Imperial Britain - personnel and ideas: the imperial elite and gentry resurgence; the Church militant, race and law; racial hierarchy and benevolence; agrarian patriotism and freehold. Part 6 The world crisis, 1780-1820: ideologies and ethnicities; liberty, equality, fraternity; Christian revivalism and the "wreck of nations"; Islam in contest; economic disruption and world crisis. Part 7 Proconsular despotism - the British Empire, 1800-1840: the proconsular regimes; Ireland and the Mediterranean; Southern Africa; Canada, Australia and the Caribbean; the "Regency Empire in the East" - India, Indonesia and Ceylon. Part 8 Colonial society in the early 19th century: land, labour and trade; social involution and the reconstruction of bondage; new fields for indigenous capital; the new states alongside the British colonial world; the decline of the second British empire, 1830-1860.