The Cambridge illustrated history of the British Empire

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ISBN: 0521432111
Physical Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1996.

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. 389-391.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : the world shaped by empire ; The British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century ; 1783-1870 : an expanding empire ; 1870-1918 : the empire under threat ; 1918 to the 1960s : keeping afloat / P.J. Marshall -- For richer, for poorer? / David Fieldhouse -- Power, authority, and freedom / A.J. Stockwell -- Empires in the mind / Andrew Porter -- Imperial towns and cities / Thomas R. Metcalf -- British emigration and new identities / Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline -- The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians / P.J. Marshall -- Art and the empire / John M. MacKenzie -- Imperial Britain / P.J. Marshall -- Australia / K.S. Inglis -- Africa / Toyin Falola -- British rule in India : an assessment / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Conclusion : empire in retrospect / P.J. Marshall.