Table of Contents

1. Uniting the Kingdom
2. Slaves, Merchants and Trade
3. Settling the `New World'
4. After America
5. Britain in India
6. Global Growth
7. Ruling an Empire
8. Being Ruled
9. Gender and Empire
10. Contesting Empire
11. Decolonization
12. Immigration

Promotional Information

An original and personal history of the rise and fall of the British Empire.

About the Author

Philippa Levine teaches history at the Universityof Southern California. A historian of empire since 1990, her publications include Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire(2003) and an edited collection, Gender and Empire: History of the British Empire Companion Series (2004).