EBOOK Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of        British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the        Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This        is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international        team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse        development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade,warfare, and        migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later        increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution,        it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during        the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.series blurb The Oxford History of the        British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent        scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. It deals with the        interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the        late twentieth century, aiming to provide a balanced treatment of the ruled as well        as the rulers, and to take into account the significance of the Empire for the        peoples of the British Isles. It exploreseconomic and social trends as well as        political.