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From: Radha
You may all find this interesting. RR
From: Radha
You may all find this interesting. RR
| Book: | Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in BengalRobert TraversCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-6145-8; 292 pp.; £50.00 |
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| Reviewer: | Jon WilsonKing's College, London |
| Citation: | Jon Wilson review of Robert Travers, Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in Bengal (review no. 697) URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/wilsonj.html Date accessed: Thursday, 20-Nov-2008 16:31:37 GMT |
Review
In the course of a single generation, the British empire was transformed from being a network of self-governing Atlantic communities into a cluster of largely Asian territories acquired, for the most part, through conquest. As countless historians note, the second half of the eighteenth century saw an 'epochal shift in world power'. For many scholars it was this period which saw the 'foundations of modern colonial empires' (p. 2). For some, it marks the beginning of forms of imperial domination which continue into our present.
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