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

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List of Maps
Glossary
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600-1800
Stages of change in Muslim Asia and North Africa
The Muslim empires: integration and uniformities
The Muslim empires: contrasts and comparisons
The nature of \'decline\'
Population, consumption and commercialisation
Asian routes to commercial agriculture
The rise of the provincial elites

2. Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia
Imperial dissolution and tribal \'breakout\': Stage 2
The sequence of \'breakouts\'
The sociology of \'tribal breakout
Ideological challenges and the reconstruction of orthodoxy
The new states of the mid-eighteenth century: Stage 3
Building regional identities
Asian \'mercantilism\'
The Asian crisis and European power
Colonialism or constrained independence?
Wars of \'monopoly\' in southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: a frontier for European and Chinese expansion
The fall of Mataram and the rise of the Companies
Port kings and merchants: Malaysia and south India
Monopoly and state-building in Ceylon
\'Proto-capitalism\' in Asia and European imperialism

3. War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790
The \'British Empire in Europe
Inverted patriotism: the case of Scotland
Aborted integration: Ireland in the eighteenth century
The Atlantic empire: disintegration and survival
The imperial crisis and international war, 1776-83

4. Britain\'s New Imperial Age
Lineaments of the new empire
Crown and nation at home and abroad
An imperial revolution in government?
\'Agrarian patriotism\' and the \'British Empire in Europe\'
An imperial army and police

5. Imperial Britain: Personnel and Ideas
The imperial elite and gentry resurgence
The Church militant, race and law
Racial hierarchy and benevolence
Agrarian patriotism and freehold
Conclusion

6 The World Crisis, 1780-1820
Dimensions of conflict
Ideologies and ethnicities
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Christian revivalism and the \'wreck of nations\'
Islam in contest
Economic disruption and world crisis
Conclusion

7. Proconsular Despotisms: the British Empire, c. 1800-40
The proconsular regimes
Ireland and the Mediterranean
Southern Africa
Canada, Australia and the Caribbean
The \'Regency Empire in the East\': India, Indonesia and Ceylon

8. Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
Land, labour and trade
Social involution and the reconstruction of bondage
New fields for indigenous capital
The new states alongside the British colonial world
The decline of the Second British Empire, 1830-60

Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index