Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830 (Studies In Modern History) - Softcover

Bayly, C. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582494389 ISBN 13: 9780582494381

Publisher: Routledge, 1989

Synopsis

In 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.

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C. A. Bayly

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In 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.

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In this impressive 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 during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, India, Java and Australasia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582494389
• ISBN 13: 9780582494381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312