Atlas of British Overseas Expansion

by A.N. Porter (Editor)

Overview

This atlas comprises a full guide to the history of Britain's imperial enterprise. In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the spread of white settlement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415063470
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/03/1994
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents include: Bristol and the Atlantic, 1480-1509, Early attempts at settlement in North America, Ireland, 1543-1625, European rivalries in teh New World, 1650-1713, Canada at the British conquest, 1763, British Expansion in India, 1765-1805, The Australian colonies and their expansion to teh 1850s, Trinidad, c. 1850, The South African War, 1899-1902, Canada, 1867-1949, The Partition of Ireland, 1919-1922, The Malaysn Emergency, 1948-1960, The Suez Crisis, 1956, The Falklands War of 1982, Delhi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Editorial Reviews

‘Every student of the subject should possess a copy.' - The Spectator

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