With the help of almost 140 maps and town plans and explanatory texts, this atlas covers a vast area in terms of period and passage of time, geography, place and distance.
In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territorial pattern of empire, exploration, trade, communications and imperial defence, war and conquest, the activities of Britain's missionaries and consuls and the shift of white settlement.

`Every student of the subject should possess a copy.' - The Spectator

Table of Contents:

Contents include: Bristol and the Atlantic, 1480-1509, Early attempts at settlement in North America, Ireland, 1543-1625, European rivalries in teh New World, 1650-1713, Canada at the British conquest, 1763, British Expansion in India, 1765-1805, The Australian colonies and their expansion to teh 1850s, Trinidad, c. 1850, The South African War, 1899-1902, Canada, 1867-1949, The Partition of Ireland, 1919-1922, The Malaysn Emergency, 1948-1960, The Suez Crisis, 1956, The Falklands War of 1982, Delhi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Economics

History in general, methods

The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age

Modernism, postmodernism

History of Europe

History/related sciences

Further readings in History

Atlases, maps

Economics (charity campaign)

History in general, methods (charity campaign)

The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign)

Modernism, postmodernism (charity campaign)

History of Europe (charity campaign)

History/related sciences (charity campaign)

Further readings in History (charity campaign)

Atlases, maps (charity campaign)

Atlas of British Overseas Expansion

This atlas comprises a full guide to the history of Britain's imperial enterprise. In addition to Britain's colonial development, it touches on subjects including the changing territoral pattern of empire, exploration, trade, war and conquest.