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Index
List of maps
Preface and acknowledgments
Introduction: the project of an Empire
Part I Towards ‘The Sceptre of the World’: the elements of Empire in the long nineteenth century
1 Victorian origins
2 The octopus power
3 The commercial republic
4 The Britannic experiment
5 ‘Un-British rule’ in ‘Anglo-India’
6 The weakest link: Britain in South Africa
7 The Edwardian transition
Part II ‘The great liner is sinking’: the British world-system in the age of war
8 The war for Empire, 1914–1919
9 Making imperial peace, 1919–1926
10 Holding the centre, 1927–1937
11 The strategic abyss, 1937–1942
12 The price of survival, 1943–1951
13 The third world power, 1951–1959
14 Reluctant retreat, 1959–1968
Conclusion
Notes
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