Christopher Alan Bayly

In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.

The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830

Imperial Meridian

Timothy Norman Harper

Packed with entertaining and disturbing stories and with new accounts of the disastrous British military takeovers of Java and Vietnam in 1945, this title shows how the mishandling of the latter led directly to the Vietnam War.

The End of Britain's Asian Empire

Forgotten Wars

Küresel Baglantilar ve Karsilastirmalar 1780-1914

Modern Dünyanin Dogusu

C. A. Bayly

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870

Empire and Information

Tim Harper

Christopher Bayly

An account of the war that tore Asia apart between 1941 and 1945. The book brings to life the stories of the ordinary men and women - soldiers and civilians, Asians, Britons and Americans - who experienced some of the most tragic events of the 20th century.

Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan

Forgotten Armies

Reappraisals in Overseas History

This volume reassesses the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism.

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire

Senior Lecturer in History Fellow Tim Harper

In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.

The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

Cette réflexion sur l'histoire du monde mêle, à travers les différents continents, l'économie et les révolutions, la religion et les idéologies, l'urbanisme et les arts, et remet en cause les visions du monde consacrées et l'idée selon laquelle le modèle de civilisation né en Europe occidentale aurait dominé dès le XVIe siècle.

La naissance du monde moderne

Leila Tarazi Fawaz

Leila Fawaz

Robert Ilbert

Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy had been irretrievably lost to a more intolerant age. Avoiding such dichotomies as East/West and modernity/tradition, this book provides a comparative analysis of contested versions of the concept of modernity. The book examines not only the "high" culture of scholars and the literati, but also popular music, the visual arts, and journalism. The contributors incorporate discussion of the way in which the business in both commodities and ideas was conducted in the increasingly cosmopolitan cities of the time.

From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

Modernity and Culture

This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.

Christopher Alan Bayly

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