Global History and the British Empire

Shigeru Akita
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Shigeru Akita: Osaka University

Chapter Chapter 5 in History of the British Empire from Asian Perspectives, 2025, pp 129-133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, the author places the rise and fall of the British Empire over the past three and a half centuries within the larger flow of world and “Global History”, reconsidering the global historical significance of the British Empire as a “bridge” for constructing a new Global History, and the dynamic role that Asia played in this process.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-1004-4_5

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