The empire project : the rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970 /
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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |