Research Catalog

Title

Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, c. 1550-1850 / edited by H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Bowen, H. V.
• Mancke, Elizabeth, 1954-
• Reid, John G., 1948-

Description

xix, 464 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

"This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes"--

Subjects

• Great Britain > Foreign relations
• HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
• Imperialism
• Great Britain > Colonies > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Britain's oceanic empire / H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid -- Geographies of the British Atlantic world / Stephen J. Hornsby -- Britain in the Indian Ocean region and beyond: contours, connections, and the creation of a global maritime empire / H. V. Bowen -- Imperial constitutions: sovereignty and law in the British Atlantic / Ken MacMillan -- Constitutions, contact zones, and imperial ricochets: sovereignty and law in British Asia / Robert Travers -- Company, state, and empire: governance and regulatory frameworks in Asia / Philip J. Stern -- The oriental Atlantic: governance and regulatory frameworks in the British Atlantic world / Jerry Bannister -- Subjects, clients, allies or mercenaries? The British use of Irish and Amerindian military power, 1500-1800 / Wayne E. Lee -- Diplomacy between Britons and Native Americans, c.1600-1830 / Eric Hinderaker -- Diplomacy in India, 1526-1858 / Michael H. Fisher -- Army discipline, military cultures, and state formation in colonial India, 1780-1860 / Douglas M. Peers -- Seths and sahibs: negotiated relationships between indigenous capital and the East India Company / Lakshmi Subramanian -- The commercial economy of eastern India under early British rule / Rajat Datta -- Anglo-Amerindian commercial relations / Paul Grant-Costa and Elizabeth Mancke -- Placing British settlement in the Americas in comparative perspective / Trevor Burnard -- Britain's oceanic empire: an afterword / H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid.

Call Number

JFE 12-7574

ISBN

• 9781107020146 (hardback)
• 110702014X (hardback)

LCCN

• 2012013675
• 40021249338

OCLC

786002578

Title

Britain's oceanic empire : Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, c. 1550-1850 / edited by H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Cover image

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Bowen, H. V.

Mancke, Elizabeth, 1954-

Reid, John G., 1948-

Other Standard Identifier

40021249338

Research Call Number

JFE 12-7574