The Making and Unmaking of Empires Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783 [Hardcover]

InThe Making and Unmaking of EmpiresP. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.

Introduction
1. British World-Wide Expansion
2. State and Empire
3. War and its Transformations: The Atlantic 1754-1763
4. War and its Transformations: India 1754-1765
5. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'Old' Empire
6. Ideas of Empire 1763-1776: The 'New' Empire
7. The Making of Empire, I: India, New Imperial Structures
8. The Making of Empire, II: India, Madras, Bombay, and Bengal
9. The Unmaking of Empire, I: North America 1763-1768
10. The Unmaking of Empire, II: North America 1768-1775
11. War and its Resolutions 1775-1783
Bibliography
Index

Every studient of empire will be informed and enlightened. --Stephen Saunders Webb,American Historical Review

A provocative and deeply researched comparative study. This book deserves careful consideration by a wide audience. --Jon Parmenter,Cornell University

P. J. Marshall is a renowned historian of the British in eighteenth century India and this synthesis of scholarship and the result of his lectures is a valuable and readable volume. It builds on his expertise on India to examine the connections between the loss of the thirteen colonies and the creation of empire in India. --History

P. J. Marshallcompleted a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society.