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The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970
The Empire Project The Rise and Fall of the British WorldSystem 18301970
Author: John Darwin
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual indep...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521302081
ISBN-10: 0521302080
Publication Date: 10/30/2009
Pages: 814
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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