The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth CenturyVolume II: The Eighteenth Century (VOL. II) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199246777 ISBN 13: 9780199246779

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This was the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploys the latest scholarly research to trace and analyze development and expansion over more than a century. They show how trade, warfare, and migration created an Empire, at first overwhelmingly in the Americas but later increasingly in Asia. Although the Empire was ruptured by the American Revolution, it survived and grew into the British Empire that was to dominate the world during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

About this title

About the Author:

P. J. Marshall is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at the University of London.

Review:

"P.J. Marshall brings to his own task immense experience and knowledge about the eighteenth-century British Empire....He has assembled a sterling cluster of scholars....One hopes that such works will not be forgotten..."--Albion

"This Oxford history represents a remarkable achievement....Readers who complete the interpretive journey from Canada to China, from Ireland to India, will appreciate the intellectual honesty that marshall and his many contributors brought to the project."--The Journal of American History

"The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century, vol. 2, provides a good overview of the British empire in the eighteenth century. It would be a welcome addition to any upper-level class on the history of the British empire."--Sixteenth Century Journal

"It must be said immediately that its first two volumes get The Oxford History of the British Empire off to a strong start. Both books consist of essays that break new ground and do so with a confidence based on extensive research and with refreshing lucidity and frankness...These two books are likely to shock some of their readers. For example, the sentimentalized and idealized version of American history, which luxuriates in popular works and is more subtly present in much academic history, finds no favor with the contributors to these volumes."--Conor Cruise O'Brien in The New York Review of Books

"The first two volumes of this five-volume history of the British Empire establish a very high standard of scholarship....Recommended for all libraries."--Library Journal

"Magisterial design and craftsmanship in the detail"--Dailys Telegraph (London)

"Magnificent...Taken together, these books constitute an extraordinary feat of organization and scholarship, and they provide the authoritative history of the British Empire for our generation, and the essential starting point of the re-writing of that history which will take place in the next generation. Opinions differ about the British Empire; there can be no disagreement about this superb history of it."--David Cannadine in The Times Literary Supplement

"The Oxford History of the British Empire will take many years to be digested. In the meantime, its five volumes will gather little dust on library shelves. Those fortunate enough to have these books in their own library will possess a valuable publication that recommends new approaches and raises new questions about one of the greatest cultural and technological transfers that has taken place in the world during the past half millennium."--The Historian

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0199246777
• ISBN 13: 9780199246779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 662
• Editor: Marshall P. J.