Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830

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Copyright: 6/5/1989

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In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called 'the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.

List of Maps

viii

Glossary

Abbreviations

xiii

Preface

xiv

Introduction

(15)

Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600--1800

(19)

Stages of change in Muslim Asia and North Africa

(2)

The Muslim empires: integration and uniformities

(2)

The Muslim empires: contrasts and comparisons

(2)

The nature of `decline'

(1)

Population, consumption and commercialisation

(3)

Asian routes to commercial agriculture

(5)

The rise of the provincial elites

(3)

Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia

(40)

Imperial dissolution and tribal `breakout': Stage 2

(3)

The sequence of `breakouts'

(2)

The sociology of `tribal breakout'

(4)

Ideological challenges and the reconstruction of orthodoxy

(2)

The new states of the mid-eighteenth century: Stage 3

(4)

Building regional identities

(2)

Asian `mercantilism'

(2)

The Asian crisis and European power

(6)

Colonialism or constrained independence?

(1)

Wars of `monopoly' in southeast Asia

(2)

Southeast Asia: a frontier for European and Chinese expansion

(4)

The fall of Mataram and the rise of the Companies

(2)

Port kings and merchants: Malaysia and south India

(1)

Monopoly and state-building in Ceylon

(3)

`Proto-capitalism' in Asia and European imperialism

(2)

War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790

(25)

The `British Empire in Europe'

(4)

Inverted patriotism: the case of Scotland

(5)

Aborted integration: Ireland in the eighteenth century

(3)

The Atlantic empire: disintegration and survival

(6)

The imperial crisis and international war, 1776--83

(5)

Britain's New Imperial Age

100

(33)

Lineaments of the new empire

100

(9)

Crown and nation at home and abroad

109

(7)

An imperial revolution in government?

116

(5)

`Agrarian patriotism' and the `British Empire in Europe'

121

(5)

An imperial army and police

126

(7)

Imperial Britain: Personnel and Ideas

133

(31)

The imperial elite and gentry resurgence

133

(3)

The Church militant, race and law

136

(11)

Racial hierarchy and benevolence

147

(8)

Agrarian patriotism and freehold

155

(5)

Conclusion

160

(4)

The World Crisis, 1780--1820

164

(29)

Dimensions of conflict

166

(5)

Ideologies and ethnicities

171

(4)

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

175

(2)

Christian revivalism and the `wreck of nations'

177

(2)

Islam in contest

179

(5)

Economic disruption and world crisis

184

(7)

Conclusion

191

(2)

Proconsular Despotisms: the British Empire, c. 1800--40

193

(24)

The proconsular regimes

194

(2)

Ireland and the Mediterranean

196

(6)

Southern Africa

202

(4)

Canada, Australia and the Caribbean

206

(3)

The `Regency Empire in the East': India, Indonesia and Ceylon

209

(8)

Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century

217

(31)

Land, labour and trade

217

(3)

Social involution and the reconstruction of bondage

220

(3)

New fields for indigenous capital

223

(3)

The new states alongside the British colonial world

226

(9)

The decline of the Second British Empire, 1830--60

235

(13)

Conclusion

248

(9)

Select Bibliography

257

(18)

Maps

275

(11)

Index

286

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