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British Imperialism 1750–1970
Cambridge Perspectives in History provides a range of textbooks and advanced history courses, focusing on key periods and themes in British and European history.
140 pages, Paperback
First published June 4, 1998
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July 3, 2017
Obviously, the subject matter is not all that exciting, but this book is terribly boring. It gives just a very short overview, but they could have written it in a more interesting manner.
July 25, 2014
I don't really understand who this book is aimed at. My university professor made us study on this book but I found it quite useless. It contains a vague and extremely short "history" of the British Empire which by no means covers half of the information needed and centres on a few remarks made by various historians (though usually always the same ones). It is very pro-Britain and I couldn't bare reading through some of the chapters such as the extremely minimal two lines (literally) dedicated to China and the "so-called Opium Wars" as the author calls them. What an honour to be dedicated two lines in the whole history of the British Empire!
The chapters are also very strangely put together; it begins with the loss of the American colonies and a brief introduction to India (without even setting a bit of background information) and suddenly jumps to the 20th Century and the independence of all the colonies. Then it goes back into 19th Century India and once again moves to a completely pointless chapter about "economy" in the Empire which provides no real information on economy nor the Empire.
A terrible book; I would certainly not recommend this for my students if I were a teacher!
The chapters are also very strangely put together; it begins with the loss of the American colonies and a brief introduction to India (without even setting a bit of background information) and suddenly jumps to the 20th Century and the independence of all the colonies. Then it goes back into 19th Century India and once again moves to a completely pointless chapter about "economy" in the Empire which provides no real information on economy nor the Empire.
A terrible book; I would certainly not recommend this for my students if I were a teacher!
July 29, 2016
This was a good book for a brief history of Britain's history of gaining and losing its empire. As much as I have read about and taught about this, I actually still learned new information that I will be using as a teacher of world history and British politics.
August 24, 2011
I really like this series as good teacherly introductions to key concepts in history and to historians skills and doing historical study. A fine and valuable teacherly text.
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