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Introduction
PART ONE THE OLD COLONIAL SYSTEM, 1600--1760
Chapter One United Kingdom
Chapter Two Merchants
Chapter Three Navigators and Pirates
Chapter Four Conquerors
Chapter Five The English Fleet
Chapter Six The Slave Trade
Chapter Seven Plantations
Chapter Eight Britain's Mercantile Rivals
Chapter Nine The Limits of the Mercantile System
Chapter Ten The Meaning of `Primitive Accumulation'
PART TWO EMPIRE OF FREE TRADE, 1760--1870
Chapter Eleven The `Great Divergence'
Chapter Twelve Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1776--1815
Chapter Thirteen Combined and Uneven Development
Chapter Fourteen White Flight
Chapter Fifteen Civilising Mission
Chapter Sixteen India -- From Company to Raj
Chapter Seventeen Opium Wars
Chapter Eighteen Fighting Back
PART THREE MODERN IMPERIALISM, 1870-1947
Chapter Nineteen `The New Imperialism'
Chapter Twenty Little England, Exhausted
Chapter Twenty-one Scramble for Africa
Chapter Twenty-two Asia
Chapter Twenty-three The Colonial Labour Question
Chapter Twenty-four High Noon of the Empire
Chapter Twenty-five The Empire at War
Chapter Twenty-six Decline of `White Prestige'
Chapter Twenty-seven From Home Rule to Independence
Chapter Twenty-eight Defeating Nationalism
PART FOUR COMMONWEALTH, 1947-89
Chapter Twenty-nine Cold War
Chapter Thirty The Challenge of Colonial Development
Chapter Thirty-one States of Emergency
Chapter Thirty-two Britain in the Middle East
Chapter Thirty-three Decolonisation
Chapter Thirty-four White Settler Revolt
Chapter Thirty-five Post-war Britain
Chapter Thirty-six The Rise and Fall of Third World Nationalism
Chapter Thirty-seven Cold War Climax
PART FIVE EMPIRE OF HUMAN RIGHTS? 1990--2020
Chapter Thirty-eight The New World Order
Chapter Thirty-nine Peace Processes
Chapter Forty Humanitarian Intervention
Chapter Forty-one Imperialism Today
Motes
Index

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For more than four centuries, Britons have been dominating and colonising other peoples and territories. Britain's Empires tells that story without flinching from the oppressive and exploitative side of the imperial mission that shaped world history. It also aims to tell the story of the colonial past as one marked by change and reinvention, where each new era was embarked upon as a break with the past.

This is history of the many different British Empires - the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020).


As well as explaining the importance of 'primitive accumulation' to kickstarting British capitalism in the Old Colonial Era, Heartfield shows that the New Imperialism of the 1880s was in large part a response to economic exhaustion in the mother country, and an attempt to find a new purpose in the colonies. Britain's Empires also explains the dynamics of decolonisation in the post-war era, the rebalancing of Britain's relation to the world that allowed it to create an arm's length relation to newly independent ex-colonies, while carrying on extensive military interventions overseas. The book concludes with an assessment of the post-Cold War resurgence of 'humanitarian intervention' in the less developed world, in an important retrospective account.


Britain's Empires explains how imperial policy dominated andskewed the history of societies across the world, from Canada and the West Indies to Ireland, from Africa to the Middle East, from India to China and into Australasia; but also how the peoples of those territories imposed themselves on Britain, challenging slavery, standing up to colonial overlords and eventually overthrowing them. The book explains how the reinvention of Britain's Empire reworked its critics protest to reinvent colonisation as a struggle against slavery in the mid-nineteenth century, and a civilising mission at that century's end. The capacity of Empire to foster local native allies helped stabilise a polity of extraordinary reach. But as Heartfield explains, the subordination of a quarter of the world's landmass was often a defensive reaction to internal limitations and other imperial challenges. The history of Britain's Empires, explains Heartfield, is one of constant challenge and change, where vanquished become victors, and heroes often turn out to be villains.