From the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of the World War in 1914, this volume covers the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire builder and dominant world power.
The Nineteenth Century: The Contradictions of Progress
One section demonstrates the state of knowledge of the stars and comets, the solar system, and the earth and its geologic structure.
Politics M. S. Anderson, The Ascendancy of Europe 1815–1914 (London, 1985), is an admirable introduction. ... 1979), and Spencer M. Di Scala and Salvo Mastellone, European Political Thought 1815–1989 (Boulder, Colo., 1998).
About the Series: The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records.
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