"Further reading": pages 151-154. Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-150) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Questions and approaches ; Definitions and concepts ; Processes and places -- Expansion and contraction: The `why' and `how' of empire-building ; Capitalists, financiers, and imperialism ; Informal empire and the official mind ; Sub-imperialism and geopolitics ; Decolonization ; Gentlemanly capitalism ; Pluralist explanations of empire ; Conclusions -- Control: Who ran the British empire? ; The colonial state ; The varieties and limits of the colonial state ; Capitalism and the colonial state ; Collaboration ; Knowledge and colonial rule ; Conclusions -- Difference: A world-shaping force? ; Difference and the Indian Raj ; Subaltern Studies ; Colonialism and race ; Gender and empire ; Conclusions -- Identity: Differentiation versus integration ; Empire and identity in Asia and Africa ; Empire and identity in Britain ; The British world ; Conclusions -- Going Global: Empire and the origins of global history ; Global histories of empire ; Networked histories of empire ; Imperial and global lives -- Conclusions.
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