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TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

BRITAIN AND THE WORLD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: III, BRITAIN AND INDIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2002

P.J. Marshall
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Abstract

THESE addresses have been trying to explore the obvious paradox in eighteenth-century Britain's fortunes overseas: a North American empire, as I suggested last year, deeply rooted in the rich soil of a close-knit transatlantic community, was to come crashing down in the gale unleashed by the new imperial anxieties and ambitions of Britain's rulers. A British empire was, however, to be successfully planted in the unpromising terrain of alien Asian peoples. It is to the creation of this new Indian empire that I wish now to turn.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 10 , December 2000 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society2000

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