01735cam a2200217 i 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802000180007604000600009404100080015410000240016224500940018626000600028030000460034050400530038652009430043965000280138265000330141065100390144365100350148220170710142952.015    s2009    enkab  fr     001 0 eng d  a9780521317894  a9780521300288  aCo-BoUCMbspacSandra Palacio (modificó)dLuz Cupitra0 aeng1 aDarwin, Johnd1948-14aThe empire projectbthe rise and fall of the British world-system, 1830-1970cJohn Darwin  aCambridge (Inglaterra)bCambridgeUniversity pressc2009  axiii, 800 páginasbilustraciones, mapas  aIncluye referencias bibliográficas e índices  aThe British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.24aImperialismo xHistoria24aDescolonización xHistoria 4aGran BretañaxColoniasxHistoria 4aGran BretañaxCivilización