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Tables of Contents for The Oxford History of the British Empire
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Contributors
Introduction
1
42
Wm. Roger Louis
The First British Empire
43
11
P. J. Marshall
The Second British Empire
54
19
C. A. Bayly
British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
73
21
Stephen Foster
The American Revolution
94
20
Doron Ben-Atar
Ireland
114
20
David Harkness
The British West Indies
134
12
B. W. Higman
Canada and the Empire
146
17
D. R. Owram
Australia and the Empire
163
19
Stuart Macintyre
Colonization and History in New Zealand
182
12
James Belich
India to 1858
194
20
Robert E. Frykenberg
India, 1858 to the 1930s
214
17
Tapan Raychaudhuri
India in the 1940s
231
12
Robin J. Moore
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
243
10
K. M. de Silva
Pakistan's Emergence
253
11
Ian Talbot
Science, Medicine, and the British Empire
264
13
Richard Drayton
Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Empire
277
13
Diana Wylie
Exploration and Empire
290
13
Robert A. Stafford
Missions and Empire
303
12
Norman Etherington
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition
315
12
Gad Heuman
The Royal Navy and the British Empire
327
15
Barry M. Gough
Imperial Defence
342
12
David Killingray
The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars
354
12
Ritchie Ovendale
Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands
366
13
Bronwen Douglas
Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia
379
24
C. M. Turnbull
The British Empire in South-East Asia
403
13
Nicholas Tarling
Formal and Informal Empire in the Middle East
416
21
Peter Sluglett
Informal Empire in Latin America
437
13
Rory Miller
Britain and the Scramble for Africa
450
13
John E. Flint
The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s
463
23
A. D. Roberts
West Africa
486
14
Toyin Falola
East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative
500
13
Charles Ambler
Southern and Central Africa
513
28
William H. Worger
Decolonization and the End of Empire
541
17
John Darwin
The Commonwealth
558
13
W. David McIntyre
Art and Empire
571
13
Jeffrey Auerbach
Architecture in the British Empire
584
12
Thomas R. Metcalf
Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire
596
16
D. A. Washbrook
The Shaping of Imperial History
612
41
A. P. Thornton
Development and the Utopian Ideal, 1960--1999
653
1
A. G. Hopkins
The Future of Imperial History
653
16
Robin W. Winks
Chronology
669
32
Index
701