Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction: the project of an Empire
- Part I Towards ‘The Sceptre of the World’: the elements of Empire in the long nineteenth century
- Part II ‘The great liner is sinking’: the British world-system in the age of war
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction: the project of an Empire
- Part I Towards ‘The Sceptre of the World’: the elements of Empire in the long nineteenth century
- Part II ‘The great liner is sinking’: the British world-system in the age of war
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Empire ProjectThe Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009