Table of Contents

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

About the Author

P. J. Marshall completed 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.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition P.J. Marshall stands pre-eminent ... The Making and Unmaking of Empires is the fruit of a life's work.
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David Armitage, TLS
`This is a very welcome book indeed, not least because it is written by one of the greatest of contemporary British imperial historians.
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Dennis Judd, BBC History Magazine