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In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them.

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  • Title The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America C.1750-1783
  • Author P. J. Marshall
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 410
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP Oxford, New York
  • Publication date 2005-06-30
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • ISBN 9780199278954 / 0199278954
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 325.341

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P. J. Marshall completed a D.Phil at Oxford in 1962. He was a lecturer in history at King's College, London, and became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1981. From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the Royal Historical Society.
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