Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history. |
Contents
Population consumption and commercialisation | |
The rise of the provincial élites | |
War Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790 | |
Britains New Imperial | |
Personnel and Ideas | |
Racial hierarchy and benevolence | |
Agrarian patriotism and freehold | |
The World Crisis 17801820 | |
the British Empirec 180040 | |
Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century | |
Conclusion | |
Select Bibliography | |
Maps | |
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