Read The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 Online
Authors: John Darwin
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Modern, #General, #World, #Political Science, #Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, #British History
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (142 page)
War of, 1899–1902
240
–8
South America
55
–6,
135
–41
Soviet Union
See
Russia
Statute of Westminster (1931)
443
–5
Stephensen, P. K.
453
sterling
434
–5,
509
–12,
543
–7,
548
,
558
–9,
562
–3,
579
–80,
539
–47
Suez base
590
–605
Suez Canal
61
,
122
,
590
–605
Suez crisis
600
–5
Syria
317
,
378
–80
Tanganyika
570
–1,
614
,
618
,
621
–2,
625
tariff reform
255
,
271
,
285
–6
Tilak, B. G.
198
,
208
–9
Toronto
154
,
455
Transvaal
224
,
225
,
238
–45
Turkey
384
,
470
,
597
–9
See also
(Ottoman Empire)
Uganda
129
,
614
,
617
,
622
–3,
625
Uitlanders
232
,
234
,
238
,
244
–5
United States
31
–2,
266
–7,
322
–3,
325
–6,
362
–4,
367
–8,
424
,
428
,
438
,
514
–17,
539
–40,
599
–609,
611
Vereeniging, treaty of (1902)
247
–8
Versailles, peace conference at
361
–3
Waitangi, treaty of (1840)
170
Washington Conference (1921–22)
368
Welensky, Sir Roy
619
,
629
,
631
Willingdon, Lord
466
Wilson, Harold
610
,
639
–47
Wilson, Woodrow
317
Woolf, Leonard
413
Zaghlul, Sa’ad
380
,
382
Zanzibar
128
–9
Zululand
224
Table of Contents
Introduction: the project of an Empire
Part I Towards ‘The Sceptre of the World’: the elements of Empire in the long nineteenth century
5 ‘Un-British rule’ in ‘Anglo-India’
6 The weakest link: Britain in South Africa
Part II ‘The great liner is sinking’: the British world-system in the age of war
8 The war for Empire, 1914–1919
9 Making imperial peace, 1919–1926
10 Holding the centre, 1927–1937
11 The strategic abyss, 1937–1942
12 The price of survival, 1943–1951
13 The third world power, 1951–1959
