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Global Expansion : Britain and Its Empire, 18701914.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849645300
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global ExpansionDDC classification:
  • 941.081
LOC classification:
  • DA16 -- .T46 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Preface -- Introduction -- Nature of Empires -- Ancient Empires -- Medieval Empires -- Modern Empire -- Global Markets by the Eighteenth Century -- Primitive Capital Accumulation -- Regimes of Accumulation -- Industrial Economy -- Capital Investment and Industrial Challenge -- Second Industrial Revolution - the Global Economy 1870-1914 -- Unstable Structure -- Lenin's Interpretation -- Scope of Discussion -- Further Reading -- 1. The British Empire on the Eve -- The Background -- The Global Economy and the Empire -- British Society -- Prelude -- India -- The 1870s -- Political Forces -- Further Reading -- 2. The Drive into Africa -- Egypt -- General Gordon and the Sudan -- Chartered Companies -- East Africa -- South and Central Africa -- Nigeria -- Imperial Rivalries -- The Berlin Conference -- The Boer Republics -- Official Attitudes -- Further Reading -- 3. Other Extensions -- India -- East Asia -- China -- Japan -- South East Asia -- South America -- Turkish and Persian Empires -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 4. The Evolved Imperial Structure -- The Economic Framework -- Settlement Colonies -- Other Areas -- Techniques -- Ethnic Diasporas -- Power and Arms -- 'Regions Caesar Never Knew': Empire and Ideology -- Moral Self-congratulation -- The Media -- Attitudes -- 'Oldest Colony' -- Further Reading -- 5. Imperial Relations -- Settlement Colonies -- India -- Africa and Others -- Clash of Empires -- Leadership Contest -- The Chamberlain Project -- A Comparison -- Liberal Imperialists -- Further Reading -- 6. Significance of Empire -- Opponents -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The British Empire on the Eve -- Chapter 2. The Drive into Africa -- Chapter 3. Other Extensions -- Chapter 4. The Evolved Imperial Structure -- Chapter 5. Imperial Relations -- Chapter 6. Significance of Empire.
Select Bibliography -- Appendix I - Maps -- Appendix II - Tables -- Index -- Aborigines' Protection Society 107 -- Africa -- x -- 24-5 -- 30-44 -- 83ff -- Alfred, King 28 -- Arabia 86 -- Arabian/Persian Gulf 87 -- Argentina 53 -- Ashanti 84 -- Asquith, H.H. 77 -- Attlee, Clement 109 -- Australia, Australasia -- 8 -- 15 -- 23 -- 62 -- 68-9 -- 80 -- 81 -- Baganda 84 -- Baring, Evelyn [Lord Cromer] -- 32 -- 65 -- Bartlett, Robert 3 -- Belfast 76 -- Berlin Conference [1885] 41-2 -- Birmingham -- 95 -- 98 -- Bismarck, Otto von -- 91 -- 97 -- Blunt, Wilfred Scawen 107 -- Boers, Boer War [South African War] -- 43 -- 61 -- 63 -- 70 -- 78 -- 96 -- 108 -- Boy Scouts -- 73 -- 97 -- Brazil 53-4 -- British South Africa Company [BSAC] -- 34 -- 37-7 -- 39 -- 84 -- Burma -- 19 -- 52 -- Cain, P.J. 11 -- Canada -- 8 -- 15 -- 45 -- 80 -- Cape Colony -- 8 -- 31 -- 36 -- Capital export -- 9ff -- 17 -- 22 -- 67 -- 89-91 -- 102-3 -- Carlyle, Thomas 75 -- Casement, Sir Roger 107 -- Caste system 72 -- Chamberlain, Joseph -- 18 -- 39 -- and imperial unity 94-9 -- and imperial unity 104 -- and imperial unity 109 -- Chartists -- 18 -- 21 -- 71 -- Chile 53-4 -- China -- 8 -- 47-51 -- 57 -- 61 -- 65 -- 67 -- 90 -- Boxer Rising in 48 -- Boxer Rising in 50 -- Church of Scotland 35 -- Cobden, Richard 16 -- Coefficient Club 106 -- Colonial Office 81 -- Columbus, Christopher [Cristobal Colomb] 4 -- Congo -- 41-2 -- 75 -- 107 -- Conrad, Joseph 1 -- Conservative Party -- 26-9 -- 74 -- 77 -- 95 -- 109 -- Corradini, Enrico 99 -- Dickens, Charles 75 -- Dilke, Sir Charles 25 -- Disraeli, Benjamin -- 26-8 -- 32 -- 104 -- Dundee -- 22 -- 45 -- Dutch East Indies 51-2 -- East India Company -- 8 -- 18-9 -- 24 -- 34 -- 47 -- 83 -- Egypt -- 31-2 -- 34 -- 61 -- 65-6 -- 67 -- 84 -- 87 -- and 'Denshawni Horror' 65-6 -- and 'Denshawni Horror' 106 -- Fabian Society 106-7 -- Falklands War -- 109.
113n. -- Fascism 109 -- Fieldhouse, D.K. 11 -- Free Church of Scotland 35 -- Free trade -- 8 -- 16-7 -- 19 -- 31 -- 79 -- 81 -- 87 -- 94ff -- Frere, Sir Bartle -- 25-6 -- 35 -- 46 -- 73 -- Froude, J.A. 75 -- Gallagher, J. 11 -- Gandhi, M.K. 83 -- Geiss, Immanuel 92 -- German East Africa [Tanganyka] 37 -- Germany -- 12 -- 133 -- rivalry with British empire 91ff -- Gladstone, William -- 32 -- 34 -- 95 -- Glasgow -- 6 -- 26 -- 38 -- Gold Coast [Ghana] -- 67 -- 85 -- Goldie, Sir George 38 -- Gordon, General -- 32-3 -- 34 -- Great Victorian Depression -- 10 -- 89 -- Hardie, Keir 106 -- Hegel, G.W.F. 106 -- Hewins, W.A.S. 106 -- Hobsbawm, Eric -- 9 -- 31 -- Hobson, J.A. -- 103 -- 107-8 -- Hong Kong -- 15 -- 19 -- 48 -- 65 -- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank -- 48 -- 49 -- 56 -- Hopkins, A.G. 11 -- Hyndman, H.M. 107 -- Imperial British East Africa Company [Ibea] -- 34-5 -- 46 -- Imperial ideology -- 71-6 -- 94ff -- 104ff. -- Indentured labour -- 63 -- 65 -- 68-9 -- 97 -- 115n. -- India -- 8 -- 18-9 -- 24 -- 45-6 -- 57 -- 82-3 -- 105 -- 108 -- 109 -- Indian National Congress, 8 -- Mutiny 75 -- Mutiny 83 -- Princely States 64 -- Princely States 83 -- Industrial Revolution -- 6 -- 7ff. -- 15 -- 88 -- 103 110n. -- Second Industrial Revolution 9ff -- Internal colonialism 3 -- Ireland -- 4 -- 76 -- 95 -- 107 -- 108 -- Italian imperialism 99 -- Jamaica insurrection 75 -- Japan -- 51 -- 57 -- 61 -- 80 -- Jardine Matheson &amp -- Co. -- 48 -- 49 -- 56 -- Kafka, Franz 1 -- Kenya -- 35 -- 67 -- 68 -- 85 -- 105 -- Kiernan, Victor -- 43 -- 82 -- 106 -- Kipling, Rudyard -- 74 -- 75 -- Kitchener, General -- 33 -- 84 -- Labour movements -- xii -- 11 -- 13 -- 20 -- 23 -- 25 -- 105ff -- Latin America -- 15 -- 20 -- 32 -- 53-5 -- 57 -- 63 -- 67 -- 90 -- 107 -- Lenin, V.I. -- ix -- x -- 10-11 -- 93 -- 102-3 -- 103 -- 108 -- Leopold II, Belgian King -- 34 -- 42 -- 89.
Liberal imperialism 99-100 -- Liberal Party -- 27 -- 76 -- 95 -- 100 -- Liberal Unionist Party 95 -- Liverpool -- 6 -- 25 -- 38 -- Livingstone, David -- 26 -- 35 -- 72 -- Lobengula 37 -- Lugard, Frederick 85-6 -- Macaulay, Thomas Babington 75 -- Mackay, James 46 -- Mackinnon, William -- 34-5 -- 45 -- Malay peninsula -- 15 -- 52 -- 69 -- 86 -- 87 -- Manchester -- 42 -- 45 -- Marchand, Colonel 33 -- Marx -- 6 -- 16 -- 18 -- Matabeleland [Rhodesia] -- 36-7 -- 84 -- 85 -- Milner, Alfred 97 -- Morel, E.D. 107 -- Mosley, Oswald 104 -- Mussolini, Benito 99 -- Napier, Sir Charles 18-9 -- National Service League 97 -- Navy League 97 -- Niger, Nigeria -- 25 -- 37-9 -- 67 -- 85-6 -- Normans 3 -- North Atlantic economy 5 -- North Borneo -- 52 -- 87 -- Nyasaland [Malawi] 36 -- O'Brien, P. 11 -- Offer, A. 11 -- Opium, Opium Wars -- 8 -- 19 -- 24 -- 47 -- Orange Free State -- 36 -- 42-3 -- P&amp -- O shipping line 49 -- Pacific islands 52 -- Palmerston, Lord -- 21 -- 28 -- 71 -- Persian empire -- 15 -- 58 -- 93 -- Platt, D.C.M 11 -- Railways -- 17 -- 22 -- Regimes of accumulation 6-7 -- Rhodes, Cecil -- 36-7 -- 39 -- 43 -- 66 -- 80 -- Roberts, Field-Marshal 97 -- Robinson, R. 11 -- Round Table 97 -- Royal Niger Company [RNC] -- 34 -- 38-9 -- 67 -- 73 -- 84 -- Rudd, Charles -- 37 -- 39 -- Russian Revolution -- 83 -- 108 -- Salisbury, Lord -- 24 -- 44 -- 94 -- Sati [suttee] 72 -- Second Reform Act -- 21 -- 27 -- Semmel, Bernard -- 104 -- 106 -- Settlement colonies -- 18 -- 21-3 -- 57 -- 62-3 -- 79-81 -- 95 -- Shaw, George Bernard -- 65 -- 106 -- 107 -- Sheffield 45 -- Sierra Leone 72 -- Singapore 87 -- Slave trade, slavery -- xii -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 25-6 -- 30 -- 37 -- 53 -- 62 -- 72 -- 73 -- 75 -- Smith, Adam 87 -- Social Democratic Federation 107 -- South Africa -- 23 -- 62 -- 67 -- 78 -- 105 -- Cape Colony 15 -- Cape Colony 36 -- Natal 68-9 -- Stanley, H.M. -- 26.
42 -- Stephen, James 18 -- Sudan -- 32-3 -- 84 -- Suez Canal -- 31-2 -- 87 -- 92 -- Tariff Reform project -- 94ff -- 106 -- Third Reich -- xii -- 12 -- Thompson, E.P. 20 -- Transvaal -- 36 -- 37 -- 42-3 -- Turkish [Ottoman] empire -- 15 -- 20 -- 30 -- 32 -- 49 -- 55-6 -- 59 -- 84 -- 92 -- 93 -- Uganda -- 35 -- 68 -- Unilever 39 -- Victoria, Queen -- 28 -- 74 -- Diamond Jubilee of 95 -- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 18 -- Webb, Sydney and Beatrice 106 -- West Indies -- 8 -- 15 -- 24 -- 68 -- World War I -- viii -- ix -- 11 -- 12 -- 40 -- 56 -- 59 -- 76 -- 79 -- 83 -- 84 -- 93 -- 103 -- 108 -- World War II 109 -- Xhosa 26 -- Yuan Shih-K'ai 51 -- Zanzibar -- 25-6 -- 35 -- 73 -- Zulus 26.
Summary: The social, economic and political forces that aided the expansion of the British Empire.
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Intro -- Contents -- Chronology -- Preface -- Introduction -- Nature of Empires -- Ancient Empires -- Medieval Empires -- Modern Empire -- Global Markets by the Eighteenth Century -- Primitive Capital Accumulation -- Regimes of Accumulation -- Industrial Economy -- Capital Investment and Industrial Challenge -- Second Industrial Revolution - the Global Economy 1870-1914 -- Unstable Structure -- Lenin's Interpretation -- Scope of Discussion -- Further Reading -- 1. The British Empire on the Eve -- The Background -- The Global Economy and the Empire -- British Society -- Prelude -- India -- The 1870s -- Political Forces -- Further Reading -- 2. The Drive into Africa -- Egypt -- General Gordon and the Sudan -- Chartered Companies -- East Africa -- South and Central Africa -- Nigeria -- Imperial Rivalries -- The Berlin Conference -- The Boer Republics -- Official Attitudes -- Further Reading -- 3. Other Extensions -- India -- East Asia -- China -- Japan -- South East Asia -- South America -- Turkish and Persian Empires -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- 4. The Evolved Imperial Structure -- The Economic Framework -- Settlement Colonies -- Other Areas -- Techniques -- Ethnic Diasporas -- Power and Arms -- 'Regions Caesar Never Knew': Empire and Ideology -- Moral Self-congratulation -- The Media -- Attitudes -- 'Oldest Colony' -- Further Reading -- 5. Imperial Relations -- Settlement Colonies -- India -- Africa and Others -- Clash of Empires -- Leadership Contest -- The Chamberlain Project -- A Comparison -- Liberal Imperialists -- Further Reading -- 6. Significance of Empire -- Opponents -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The British Empire on the Eve -- Chapter 2. The Drive into Africa -- Chapter 3. Other Extensions -- Chapter 4. The Evolved Imperial Structure -- Chapter 5. Imperial Relations -- Chapter 6. Significance of Empire.

Select Bibliography -- Appendix I - Maps -- Appendix II - Tables -- Index -- Aborigines' Protection Society 107 -- Africa -- x -- 24-5 -- 30-44 -- 83ff -- Alfred, King 28 -- Arabia 86 -- Arabian/Persian Gulf 87 -- Argentina 53 -- Ashanti 84 -- Asquith, H.H. 77 -- Attlee, Clement 109 -- Australia, Australasia -- 8 -- 15 -- 23 -- 62 -- 68-9 -- 80 -- 81 -- Baganda 84 -- Baring, Evelyn [Lord Cromer] -- 32 -- 65 -- Bartlett, Robert 3 -- Belfast 76 -- Berlin Conference [1885] 41-2 -- Birmingham -- 95 -- 98 -- Bismarck, Otto von -- 91 -- 97 -- Blunt, Wilfred Scawen 107 -- Boers, Boer War [South African War] -- 43 -- 61 -- 63 -- 70 -- 78 -- 96 -- 108 -- Boy Scouts -- 73 -- 97 -- Brazil 53-4 -- British South Africa Company [BSAC] -- 34 -- 37-7 -- 39 -- 84 -- Burma -- 19 -- 52 -- Cain, P.J. 11 -- Canada -- 8 -- 15 -- 45 -- 80 -- Cape Colony -- 8 -- 31 -- 36 -- Capital export -- 9ff -- 17 -- 22 -- 67 -- 89-91 -- 102-3 -- Carlyle, Thomas 75 -- Casement, Sir Roger 107 -- Caste system 72 -- Chamberlain, Joseph -- 18 -- 39 -- and imperial unity 94-9 -- and imperial unity 104 -- and imperial unity 109 -- Chartists -- 18 -- 21 -- 71 -- Chile 53-4 -- China -- 8 -- 47-51 -- 57 -- 61 -- 65 -- 67 -- 90 -- Boxer Rising in 48 -- Boxer Rising in 50 -- Church of Scotland 35 -- Cobden, Richard 16 -- Coefficient Club 106 -- Colonial Office 81 -- Columbus, Christopher [Cristobal Colomb] 4 -- Congo -- 41-2 -- 75 -- 107 -- Conrad, Joseph 1 -- Conservative Party -- 26-9 -- 74 -- 77 -- 95 -- 109 -- Corradini, Enrico 99 -- Dickens, Charles 75 -- Dilke, Sir Charles 25 -- Disraeli, Benjamin -- 26-8 -- 32 -- 104 -- Dundee -- 22 -- 45 -- Dutch East Indies 51-2 -- East India Company -- 8 -- 18-9 -- 24 -- 34 -- 47 -- 83 -- Egypt -- 31-2 -- 34 -- 61 -- 65-6 -- 67 -- 84 -- 87 -- and 'Denshawni Horror' 65-6 -- and 'Denshawni Horror' 106 -- Fabian Society 106-7 -- Falklands War -- 109.

113n. -- Fascism 109 -- Fieldhouse, D.K. 11 -- Free Church of Scotland 35 -- Free trade -- 8 -- 16-7 -- 19 -- 31 -- 79 -- 81 -- 87 -- 94ff -- Frere, Sir Bartle -- 25-6 -- 35 -- 46 -- 73 -- Froude, J.A. 75 -- Gallagher, J. 11 -- Gandhi, M.K. 83 -- Geiss, Immanuel 92 -- German East Africa [Tanganyka] 37 -- Germany -- 12 -- 133 -- rivalry with British empire 91ff -- Gladstone, William -- 32 -- 34 -- 95 -- Glasgow -- 6 -- 26 -- 38 -- Gold Coast [Ghana] -- 67 -- 85 -- Goldie, Sir George 38 -- Gordon, General -- 32-3 -- 34 -- Great Victorian Depression -- 10 -- 89 -- Hardie, Keir 106 -- Hegel, G.W.F. 106 -- Hewins, W.A.S. 106 -- Hobsbawm, Eric -- 9 -- 31 -- Hobson, J.A. -- 103 -- 107-8 -- Hong Kong -- 15 -- 19 -- 48 -- 65 -- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank -- 48 -- 49 -- 56 -- Hopkins, A.G. 11 -- Hyndman, H.M. 107 -- Imperial British East Africa Company [Ibea] -- 34-5 -- 46 -- Imperial ideology -- 71-6 -- 94ff -- 104ff. -- Indentured labour -- 63 -- 65 -- 68-9 -- 97 -- 115n. -- India -- 8 -- 18-9 -- 24 -- 45-6 -- 57 -- 82-3 -- 105 -- 108 -- 109 -- Indian National Congress, 8 -- Mutiny 75 -- Mutiny 83 -- Princely States 64 -- Princely States 83 -- Industrial Revolution -- 6 -- 7ff. -- 15 -- 88 -- 103 110n. -- Second Industrial Revolution 9ff -- Internal colonialism 3 -- Ireland -- 4 -- 76 -- 95 -- 107 -- 108 -- Italian imperialism 99 -- Jamaica insurrection 75 -- Japan -- 51 -- 57 -- 61 -- 80 -- Jardine Matheson &amp -- Co. -- 48 -- 49 -- 56 -- Kafka, Franz 1 -- Kenya -- 35 -- 67 -- 68 -- 85 -- 105 -- Kiernan, Victor -- 43 -- 82 -- 106 -- Kipling, Rudyard -- 74 -- 75 -- Kitchener, General -- 33 -- 84 -- Labour movements -- xii -- 11 -- 13 -- 20 -- 23 -- 25 -- 105ff -- Latin America -- 15 -- 20 -- 32 -- 53-5 -- 57 -- 63 -- 67 -- 90 -- 107 -- Lenin, V.I. -- ix -- x -- 10-11 -- 93 -- 102-3 -- 103 -- 108 -- Leopold II, Belgian King -- 34 -- 42 -- 89.

Liberal imperialism 99-100 -- Liberal Party -- 27 -- 76 -- 95 -- 100 -- Liberal Unionist Party 95 -- Liverpool -- 6 -- 25 -- 38 -- Livingstone, David -- 26 -- 35 -- 72 -- Lobengula 37 -- Lugard, Frederick 85-6 -- Macaulay, Thomas Babington 75 -- Mackay, James 46 -- Mackinnon, William -- 34-5 -- 45 -- Malay peninsula -- 15 -- 52 -- 69 -- 86 -- 87 -- Manchester -- 42 -- 45 -- Marchand, Colonel 33 -- Marx -- 6 -- 16 -- 18 -- Matabeleland [Rhodesia] -- 36-7 -- 84 -- 85 -- Milner, Alfred 97 -- Morel, E.D. 107 -- Mosley, Oswald 104 -- Mussolini, Benito 99 -- Napier, Sir Charles 18-9 -- National Service League 97 -- Navy League 97 -- Niger, Nigeria -- 25 -- 37-9 -- 67 -- 85-6 -- Normans 3 -- North Atlantic economy 5 -- North Borneo -- 52 -- 87 -- Nyasaland [Malawi] 36 -- O'Brien, P. 11 -- Offer, A. 11 -- Opium, Opium Wars -- 8 -- 19 -- 24 -- 47 -- Orange Free State -- 36 -- 42-3 -- P&amp -- O shipping line 49 -- Pacific islands 52 -- Palmerston, Lord -- 21 -- 28 -- 71 -- Persian empire -- 15 -- 58 -- 93 -- Platt, D.C.M 11 -- Railways -- 17 -- 22 -- Regimes of accumulation 6-7 -- Rhodes, Cecil -- 36-7 -- 39 -- 43 -- 66 -- 80 -- Roberts, Field-Marshal 97 -- Robinson, R. 11 -- Round Table 97 -- Royal Niger Company [RNC] -- 34 -- 38-9 -- 67 -- 73 -- 84 -- Rudd, Charles -- 37 -- 39 -- Russian Revolution -- 83 -- 108 -- Salisbury, Lord -- 24 -- 44 -- 94 -- Sati [suttee] 72 -- Second Reform Act -- 21 -- 27 -- Semmel, Bernard -- 104 -- 106 -- Settlement colonies -- 18 -- 21-3 -- 57 -- 62-3 -- 79-81 -- 95 -- Shaw, George Bernard -- 65 -- 106 -- 107 -- Sheffield 45 -- Sierra Leone 72 -- Singapore 87 -- Slave trade, slavery -- xii -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 25-6 -- 30 -- 37 -- 53 -- 62 -- 72 -- 73 -- 75 -- Smith, Adam 87 -- Social Democratic Federation 107 -- South Africa -- 23 -- 62 -- 67 -- 78 -- 105 -- Cape Colony 15 -- Cape Colony 36 -- Natal 68-9 -- Stanley, H.M. -- 26.

42 -- Stephen, James 18 -- Sudan -- 32-3 -- 84 -- Suez Canal -- 31-2 -- 87 -- 92 -- Tariff Reform project -- 94ff -- 106 -- Third Reich -- xii -- 12 -- Thompson, E.P. 20 -- Transvaal -- 36 -- 37 -- 42-3 -- Turkish [Ottoman] empire -- 15 -- 20 -- 30 -- 32 -- 49 -- 55-6 -- 59 -- 84 -- 92 -- 93 -- Uganda -- 35 -- 68 -- Unilever 39 -- Victoria, Queen -- 28 -- 74 -- Diamond Jubilee of 95 -- Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 18 -- Webb, Sydney and Beatrice 106 -- West Indies -- 8 -- 15 -- 24 -- 68 -- World War I -- viii -- ix -- 11 -- 12 -- 40 -- 56 -- 59 -- 76 -- 79 -- 83 -- 84 -- 93 -- 103 -- 108 -- World War II 109 -- Xhosa 26 -- Yuan Shih-K'ai 51 -- Zanzibar -- 25-6 -- 35 -- 73 -- Zulus 26.

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