EBOOK Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century

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. In this new volume on the last century of empire there are chapters on        imperial centres, on the geographical `periphery' of empire, and on all its        connecting mechanisms, including institutions and the flow of people, money, goods,        and services. The volume also explores the experience of `imperial subjects' interms        of culture, politics, and economics; an experience which culminated in the growth of        vibrant, often new, national identities and movements and, ultimately, new        nation-states. It concludes with the processes of decolonization which reshaped the        political map of the late twentieth-centuryworld.