Textbook
The British Empire: Themes and PerspectivesISBN: 978-1-4051-2535-2
Paperback
384 pages
December 2007, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of
British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth
century
- Brings together leading scholars of British imperial history:
Tony Ballantyne, John Darwin, Andrew Dilley, Elizabeth Elbourne,
Kent Fedorowich, Eliga Gould, Catherine Hall, Stephen Howe, Sarah
Stockwell, Andrew Thompson, Stuart Ward, and Jon Wilson
- Each contributor offers a personal assessment of the topic at
hand, and examines key interpretive debates among historians
- Addresses many of the core issues that constitute a broad understanding of the British Empire, including the economics of the empire, the empire and religion, and imperial identities