The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900

by Duncan Bell

Book Overview

During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151164
• ISBN13: 9780691151168
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"