Cambridge Perspectives in History provides a range of textbooks and advanced history courses, focusing on key periods and themes in British and European history.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Perspectives in History .

There are 140 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. The Seven Years War and the crisis in North America; 2. Establishment of empire in Asia and the Pacific; 3. Self-determination in the colonies of European settlement; 4. Humanitarianism, anti-slavery and missionary activity; 5. Rule and response in nineteenth-century India; 6. Imperialism and nationalism in India; 7. Britain's imperial century, 1815-1914; 8. Challenge to imperial authority: South Africa and Ireland; 9. The British Empire in the Middle East; 10. End of Empire: Africa.