Bloomsbury Academic
Envisioning Empire: The New British World from 1763 to 1773
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- James M Vaughn
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Paperback
- 9781350240421
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- History > Europe - Great Britain - Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Examining the pivotal period between the end of the Seven Years' War and the dawn of the American Revolution, Envisioning Empire reinterprets the development of the British Empire in the 18th century. With exceptional geographical scope, this book provides new ways of understanding the actors and events in many imperial arenas, including West Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and South Asia.
While 1763 has long been seen as marking a turning point in British and British-colonial history, Envisioning Empire treats this epochal year, and the decade that followed, as constituting a discrete 'moment' in Imperial history that is significant in its own right. Exploring the programs and plans that sought to incorporate the vast new territories and millions of new subjects into the British state and imperial system, it demonstrates how the period between the end of the Seven Years' War and the beginning of the American Revolution was one of contested ideas about the future of British overseas expansion. By examining these competing imperial visions and designs from the perspective of Britain's new subjects as well as from that of British ministers, Envisioning Empire both illuminates and complicates the boundaries that have been drawn between the first and second British empires and reveals how the Empire was being conceived, discussed, and debated during an era of rapid transformation.
Author Bio
James M. Vaughn is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His main interests lie in the history of Britain and the history of the British Empire in the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. His current project examines the origins and early development of the British East India Company’s territorial empire in the context of metropolitan socio-political evolution and far-reaching global transformations in the eighteenth century.
Source: The University of Texas at Austin
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