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The undisputed best introduction to the history of the world-wide pattern of British activity in the nineteenth century, embracing its expansive spirit as well as its formal territorial empire. The dynamics of this extraordinary enterprise are considered broadly: the high-political concerns of strategy and international geopolitics are analyzed, as well as the economic dimension, missionary activity, and racial attitudes, together with a wide range of cultural aspects, including sport and the pursuit of sexual opportunity. Nor is the personal contribution of some of the leading Victorian figures neglected.
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RONALD HYAM is a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College, and Emeritus Reader in British Imperial History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous studies on the British Empire, including Empire and Sexuality and he has edited two volumes for the British Documents on the End of Empire Project. He was awarded the LittD degree in 1993.
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Book Title: Britain's Imperial Century, 1815-1914
Book Subtitle: A Study of Empire and Expansion
Authors: Ronald Hyam
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403918420
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99311-8Published: 23 September 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-1842-0Published: 23 September 2002
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XVIII, 377
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern History