The Nineteenth Century

Volume III covers the long watershed of the nineteenth century, from the American independence of the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This period saw Britain's greatest expansion as an empire-builder and a dominant world power. We begin with several thematic chapters--some are on Britain while others consider the empire's periphery--exploring the key dynamics of British expansion that made imperial influence possible and imperial rule prevalent. The volume also studies the economic, cultural, and institutional frameworks that shaped Britain's overseas empire. Focus then shifts to the principal areas of imperial activity overseas, including both white-settler and tropical colonies, and the question of how British interests and imperial rule shaped the political, social, and economic histories of individual regions. The themes include economics, institutions, defense, technology, imperial and colonial cultures, science, and exploration. The volume examines not only the formal empire, stretching from Australasia and the West Indies to India and the African colonies, but also China and Latin America, which were the central components of Britain's "informal" empire. About the Series: 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. It deals with the interaction of British and non-western societies from the Elizabethan era to the late twentieth century, provides a balanced treatment of the ruled as well as the rulers, and takes into account the significance of the Empire for the peoples of the British Isles. All five of the volumes in thisseries fully explore economic and social as well as political trends.

Andrew Porter is Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at the University of London.

Part One
2: P. J. Cain: Economics and Empire: The Metropolitan Context
3: B. R. Tomlinson: Economics and Empire: The Periphery and the Imperial Economy
4: Marjory Harper: British Migration and the Peopling of the Empire
5: David Northrup: Migration from Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific
6: Martin Lynn: British Policy, Trade, and Informal Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
7: Alan Knight: Britain and Latin America
8: Jurgen Oesterhammel: Britain and China 1842-1914
9: Peter Burroughs: Imperial Institutions and the Government of Empire
10: Andrew Porter: Trusteeship, Anti-Slavery and Humanitarianism
11: Andrew Porter: Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire
12: Robert V. Kubicek: British Expansion, Empire, and Technological Change
13: John M. MacKenzie: Empire and Metropolitan Cultures
14: Robert A. Stafford: Scientific Exploration and Empire
15: Peter Burroughs: Defence and Imperial Disunity
16: E. H. H. Green: The Political Economy of Empire, 1880-1914
Part Two
18: D. A. Washbrook: India 1818-1860: The Two Faces of Colonialism
19: Robin J. Moore: Imperial India, 1858-1914
20: Susan Bayly: The Evolution of Colonial Cultures:Nineteenth-Century Asia
21: Gad Heuman: The British West Indies
22: David Fitzpatrick: Ireland and the Empire
23: Ged Martin: Canada from 1815
24: Donald Denoon with Marivic Wyndham: Australia and the Western Pacific
25: Raewyn Dalziel: Southern Islands: New Zealand and Polynesia
26: Christopher Saunders and Iain R. Smith: Southern Africa, 1795-1910
27: olin Newbury: Great Britain and the Partition of Africa, 1870-1914
28: Afaf al Sayyid-Marsot: The British Occupation of Egypt from 1882
29: T. C. McCaskie: Cultural Encounters: Britain and Africa in the Nineteenth Century
30: Avner Offer: Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914