Table of Contents

List of Contributors 1: Introduction 2: The First British Empire 3: The Second British Empire 4: British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 5: The American Revolution 6: Ireland 7: The British West Indies 8: Canada and the Empire 9: Australia and the Empire 10: Colonization and History in New Zealand 11: India to 1858 12: India, 1858-1937 13: India in the 1940s 14: Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 15: Pakistan's Emergence 16: Science, Medicine, and the British Empire 17: Disease, Diet, and Gender: Late Twentieth-Century Critical Perspective on Empire 18: Exploration and Empire 19: Missions and Empire 20: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition 21: The Royal Navy and the British Empire 22: Imperial Defence 23: The Empire-Commonwealth and the Two World Wars 24: Imperial Flotsam? The British in the Pacific Islands 25: Formal and Informal Empire in East Asia 26: The British Empire in South-East Asia 27: Formal and Imformal Empire in the Middle East 28: Informal Empire in Latin America 29: Britain and the Scramble for Africa 30: The British Empire in Tropical Africa: A Review of the Literature to the 1960s 31: West Africa 32: East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative 33: Central and Southern Africa 34: Decolonization and the End of Empire 35: The Commonwealth 36: Art and Empire 37: Architecture in the British Empire 38: Orients and Occidents: Colonial Discourse Theory and the Historiography of the British Empire 39: The Shaping of Imperial History 40: The Future of Imperial History 41: The Way Forward Chronology, Index

About the Author

Robin Winks is Randolph W. Townsend Professor of History at Yale University.

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

`Oxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for
thie massive undertaking.'
Contemporary Review
`Review from other book by this author concludes with two useful essays by A.G. Hopkins and Robin Winks, which masterfully survey the state of recent historical writing on the Empire ... scholars and future students of the British Empire will find this volume an indispensable guide.'
R. Fritze, Choice