The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783

In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them. "Every studient of empire will be informed and enlightened."--Stephen Saunders Webb, American Historical Review "A provocative and deeply researched comparative study. This book deserves careful consideration by a wide audience."--Jon Parmenter, Cornell University "P. J. Marshall is a renowned historian of the British in eighteenth century India and this synthesis of scholarship and the result of his lectures is a valuable and readable volume. It builds on his expertise on India to examine the connections between the loss of the thirteen colonies and the creation of empire in India."-- History Brings the British Empire in India and America together in a common focus P. J. Marshall completed a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society.