Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present

Table of contents

• Title Page v
• Contents ix
• Illustrations xiii
• Preface xxv
• 1 - Anatomy of an Empire an Introduction 1
• 2 - The American Revolution the End of the First British Empire? 18
• 3 - Australia the First Fleet of 1788, and the Subsequent Settlements; Gold, Wool and Responsible Government 29
• 4 - Ireland the Union of 1800; the Agitation for Home Rule and Its Partial Resolution; Problems of Identity as Both Imperial Partner and Subordinate Nation 40
• 5 - The Rebellions of 1837; the Durham Report; Responsible Government; Settlement and Expansion; Inter-Colonial Rivalries; the 1867 Confederation 50
• 6 - The Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 the Economics of Empire 58
• 7 - The Great Indian Uprising of 1857-58 the British in India 66
• 8 - The Jamaica Rebellion of 1865 British Interests in the Caribbean and the 'Nigger Question' 82
• 9 - The Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Britain in Egypt and the Sudan; Gordon at Khartoum, and Kitchener's Reconquest of the Sudan 92
• 10 - The Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881 Bantu, Briton and Boer in South Africa; from the British Annexation of the Cape to the Convention of London 1884 104
• 11 - Fantasy, Power and the Partition of Africa 117
• 12 - Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897 the Uses and the Misuses of Empire; an Imperial Triumph, or Whistling in the Dark? Fin de SièCle and the Problems and Opportunities of Empire 130
• 13 - The Battle of Spion Kop, 1900 Crisis, War and Union in South Africa 154
• 14 - The Suicide of Sir Hector Macdonald, 1903 Sex and the British Empire 171
• 15 - Joseph Chamberlain and the Cabinet Split of 1903 Tariff Reform, Economic Decline and Imperial Preference 187
• 16 - Scouting for Boys, 1908 National Decline, Empire, Youth and Education 201
• 17 - The Unity and the Disunity of the Empire; Pan-Anglo-Saxonism, and the Pax Britannica 214
• 18 - The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement of January 1914 Anti-Imperialism, Resistance Movements, and 'Occidentalism' versus 'Orientalism' 226
• 19 - The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland Britain, the Empire and the First World War 242
• 20 - The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 Gandhi, the Raj and the Growth of Indian Nationalism, 1915-39 258
• 21 - The 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition Selling and Buying the Empire-Commonwealth in the Inter-War Years 273
• 22 - The Balfour Definition of Dominion Status, 1926 the Empire's Constitution, Trade and Development between the Wars 287
• 23 - The Bodyline Tour of Australia, 1932 Imperialism, National Identity and Sport 297
• 24 - The Fall of Singapore, February 1942 Britain, the Empire-Commonwealth and the Second World War 310
• 25 - The Partition of India, 1947 the Labour Government and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945 to 1951 323
• 26 - Churchill's Return to Power in Britain; the Conservative 'Holding Operation'; Confrontations with Nationalist Movements in Egypt, Cyprus, West and East Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean 346
• 27 - The Suez Crisis of 1956 the Fall of the British Empire and the Rise of the Commonwealth -¯ and the Common Market 359
• 28 - Variable Winds of Change, and Wilson's Labour Government, 1964 to 1970 372
• 29 - The Declaration of Commonwealth Principles at Singapore, 1971 the Commonwealth during the 1970s 387
• 30 - The Falklands War, 1982 the Remnants of Empire 402
• 31 - The Inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, May 1994 Post-Colonialism and the Balance Sheet of Empire 410
• Chronology 1765-1996 433
• Notes 469
• Bibliography 479
• Index 502

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