Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830

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Preface
Introduction
1. Political and Social Change in the Muslim Empires, 1600-1800
	Stages of change in Muslim Asia and North Africa
	The Muslim empires: integration and uniformities
	The Muslim empires: contrasts and comparisons
	The nature of \'decline\'
	Population, consumption and commercialisation
	Asian routes to commercial agriculture
	The rise of the provincial elites

2. Crisis and Reorganisation in Muslim Asia
	Imperial dissolution and tribal \'breakout\': Stage 2
	The sequence of \'breakouts\'
	The sociology of \'tribal breakout
	Ideological challenges and the reconstruction of orthodoxy
	The new states of the mid-eighteenth century: Stage 3
	Building regional identities
	Asian \'mercantilism\'
	The Asian crisis and European power
	Colonialism or constrained independence?
	Wars of \'monopoly\' in southeast Asia
	Southeast Asia: a frontier for European and Chinese expansion
	The fall of Mataram and the rise of the Companies
	Port kings and merchants: Malaysia and south India
	Monopoly and state-building in Ceylon
	\'Proto-capitalism\' in Asia and European imperialism

3. War, Empire and the Colonies of Settlement to 1790
	The \'British Empire in Europe
	Inverted patriotism: the case of Scotland
	Aborted integration: Ireland in the eighteenth century
	The Atlantic empire: disintegration and survival
	The imperial crisis and international war, 1776-83

4. Britain\'s New Imperial Age
	Lineaments of the new empire
	Crown and nation at home and abroad
	An imperial revolution in government?
	\'Agrarian patriotism\' and the \'British Empire in Europe\'
	An imperial army and police

5. Imperial Britain: Personnel and Ideas
	The imperial elite and gentry resurgence
	The Church militant, race and law
	Racial hierarchy and benevolence
	Agrarian patriotism and freehold
	Conclusion

6 The World Crisis, 1780-1820
	Dimensions of conflict
	Ideologies and ethnicities
	Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
	Christian revivalism and the \'wreck of nations\'
	Islam in contest
	Economic disruption and world crisis
	Conclusion

7. Proconsular Despotisms: the British Empire, c. 1800-40
	The proconsular regimes
	Ireland and the Mediterranean
	Southern Africa
	Canada, Australia and the Caribbean
	The \'Regency Empire in the East\': India, Indonesia and Ceylon

8.  Colonial Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
	Land, labour and trade
	Social involution and the reconstruction of bondage
	New fields for indigenous capital
	The new states alongside the British colonial world
	The decline of the Second British Empire, 1830-60

Conclusion
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Index