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

Author:Edited by P. J. Marshall
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Oxford University Press
1998
Format: pdf
Size: 37.61 MB
Language: English


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.