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This history of the British imperial world in the nineteenth century is as engaging and informative an introduction to the subject as you'll find. In a substantially revised edition that incorporates recent scholarship, Parsons displays all the qualities that distinguish his work as a historian, including lucid prose, sound judgment, and penetrating insight. Students and specialists alike will enjoy and benefit from this book. -- Dane Kennedy, George Washington University Imperial history all too often masquerades as world history, while in reality presenting readers with the restricted view from the gunboat or the cabinet office. In this rich interpretation, written with admirable clarity and verve, Parsons offers a genuinely world historical perspective on Britain's nineteenth-century empire, one that pays as much attention to the experience of subject populations as to metropolitan elites. The expansion of empire is shown to be a major engine of globalization, but the character of that empire was shaped as much from beneath and within as from above. -- Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin

This history of the British imperial world in the nineteenth century is as engaging and informative an introduction to the subject as you'll find. In a substantially revised edition that incorporates recent scholarship, Parsons displays all the qualities that distinguish his work as a historian, including lucid prose, sound judgment, and penetrating insight. Students and specialists alike will enjoy and benefit from this book. -- Dane Kennedy, George Washington University Imperial history all too often masquerades as world history, while in reality presenting readers with the restricted view from the gunboat or the cabinet office. In this rich interpretation, written with admirable clarity and verve, Parsons offers a genuinely world historical perspective on Britain's nineteenth-century empire, one that pays as much attention to the experience of subject populations as to metropolitan elites. The expansion of empire is shown to be a major engine of globalization, but the character of that empire was shaped as much from beneath and within as from above. -- Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin This revised survey of the long nineteenth-century empire offers a dispassionate, factual account of the British in their successes and failures at ruling and exploiting others. Material drawn from recent scholarship challenges a conventional story and invites us to argue and reflect, thereby engaging both fans of empire and those who fervently dissent. -- Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This history of the British imperial world in the nineteenth century is as engaging and informative an introduction to the subject as you'll find. In a substantially revised edition that incorporates recent scholarship, Parsons displays all the qualities that distinguish his work as a historian, including lucid prose, sound judgment, and penetrating insight. Students and specialists alike will enjoy and benefit from this book. -- Dane Kennedy, George Washington University

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Timothy H. Parsons is professor of African history at Washington University. His publications include The African Rank-and-File: Social Implications of Colonial Service in the King’s African Rifles, 1902–1964, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall and The Second British Empire: In the Crucible of the Twentieth Century.

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