Introduction : the world shaped by empire ; The British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century ; 1783-1870 : an expanding empire ; 1870-1918 : the empire under threat ; 1918 to the 1960s : keeping afloat / P.J. Marshall
For richer, for poorer? / David Fieldhouse
Power, authority, and freedom / A.J. Stockwell
Empires in the mind / Andrew Porter
Imperial towns and cities / Thomas R. Metcalf
British emigration and new identities / Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline
The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians / P.J. Marshall
Art and the empire / John M. MacKenzie
Imperial Britain / P.J. Marshall
British rule in India : an assessment / Tapan Raychaudhuri
Conclusion : empire in retrospect / P.J. Marshall.
