Table of Contents

List of Maps, List of Figures, List of Tables, Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources, List of Contributors
1: Wm. Roger Louis: Introduction
2: Ronald Hyam: The British Empire in the Edwardian Era
3: John Darwin: A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics
4: D. K. Fieldhouse: The Metropolitan Economics of Empire
5: Robert Holland: The British Empire and the Great War, 1914-1918
6: Deirdre McMahon: Ireland and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1900-1948
7: Stephen Constantine: Migrants and Settlers
8: Nicholas Owen: Critics of Empire
9: John M. MacKenzie: The Popular Culture of Empire in Britain
10: John W. Cell: Colonial Rule
11: Ronald Hyam: Bureaucracy and `Trusteeship' in the Colonial Empire
12: Anthony Clayton: `Deceptive Might': Imperial Defence and Security, 1900-1968
13: Keith Jeffery: The Second World War
14: Wm. Roger Louis: The Dissolution of the British Empire
15: B. R. Tomlinson: Imperialism and After: The Economy of the Empire on the Periphery
16: Rosalind O' Hanlon: Gender in the British Empire
17: Francis Robinson: The British Empire and the Muslim Worlds
18: Judith M. Brown: India
19: Stephen Ashton: Ceylon
20: A. J. Stockwell: Imperialism and Nationalism in South-East Asia
21: Glen Balfour-Paul: Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East
22: Toyin Falola and A. D. Roberts: West Africa
23: John Lonsdale: East Africa
24: Shula Marks: Southern Africa
25: David MacKenzie: Canada, the North Atlantic Triangle, and the Empire
26: Howard Johnson: The British Caribbean from Demobilization to Constitutional Decolonization
27: Alan Knight: Latin America
28: Jürgen Osterhammel: China
29: W. David McIntyre: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
30: W. David McIntyre: Commonwealth Legacy
31: Judith M. Brown: Epilogue
Chronology, Index

About the Author

Judith Brown is Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, and Fellow of Balliol College, at Oxford University.

Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

`Oxford University Press has recently published a wide variety of historical titles in paperback. Pride of place must go to the five volume Oxford History of the British Empire written under the general editorship of Professor William Roger Lewis and published in hardback in 1998. The five volumes, describe the history and effect of the Empire on world history. The scholars who contributed and the volumes' individual editors all deserve high praise for
thie massive undertaking.'
Contemporary Review
`Impressive ... a neat balance of thematic and area-specific chapters, all of which are exceptionally well written ... will serve as a vital work of reference for any library concerned with the history of the empire.'
Nicholas J. White, The Economic Hist. Rev., Vol.LIII, No.4, Nov.2000.
`The Oxford History of the British Empire has been, arguably, the most important contribution to British imperial studies in recent decades. Volume 4, on the 20th Century, is the highly impressive conclusion of the narrative volumes ... Reasonably priced, this is an indispensable resource.'
R.D. Long, Choice, Vol.37, No.11/12, Jul/Aug.00.
`Review from previous edition The Oxford History of the British Empire has been, arguably, the most important contribution to British imperial studies in recent decades. Volume 4, on the 20th Century, is the highly impressive conclusion of the narrative volumes ... Reasonably priced, this is an indispensable resource.'
R.D. Long, Choice