English Colonization and Empire
Title | English Colonization and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Caldecott |
Publisher | New York Scribner 1891. |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Colonization |
ISBN |
Lectures on British Colonization and Empire
Title | Lectures on British Colonization and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick |
Publisher | London : J. Murray |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Cities of Empire
Title | Cities of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tristram Hunt |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2014-11-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0805093087 |
"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."
Unfinished Empire
Title | Unfinished Empire PDF eBook |
Author | John Darwin |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1846146712 |
A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
English Colonization and Empire
Title | English Colonization and Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Caldecott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Colonization |
ISBN |
A View of the Art of Colonization
Title | A View of the Art of Colonization PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Gibbon Wakefield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Colonization |
ISBN |
Empires of the Atlantic World
Title | Empires of the Atlantic World PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Elliott |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300133553 |
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.