Empire: the British imperial experience from 1765 to the present

1 Anatomy of an Empire : An Introduction 2. The American Revolution : The End of the First British Empire? 3. Australia : The First Fleet of 1788, and the Subsequent Settlements [and] Gold, Wool and Responsible Government 4. Ireland : The Union of 1800 [and] The Agitation for Home Rule and its Partial Resolution [and] Problems of Identity as Both Imperial Partner and Subordinate Nation 5. Canada : The Rebellions of 1837 [and] The Durham Report [and] Responsible Government [and] Settlement and Expansion [and] Inter-Colonial Rivalries [and] The 1867 Confederation 6. Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 : The Economics of Empire 7. Great Indian Uprising of 1857-58 : The British in India 8. Jamaica Rebellion of 1865 : British Interests in the Caribbean and the `Nigger Question' 9. Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 : Britain in Egypt and the Sudan [and] Gordon at Khartoum, and Kitchener's Reconquest of the Sudan 10. Battle of Majuba Hill, 1881 : Bantu, Briton and Boer in South Africa [and] From the British Annexation of the Cape to the Convention of London 1884

11. Cecil Rhodes' Legacy : Fantasy, Power and the Partition of Africa 12. Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897 : The Uses and the Misuses of Empire [and] An Imperial Triumph, or Whistling in the Dark? : Fin de Siecle and the Problems and Opportunities of Empire 13. Battle of Spion Kop, 1900 : Crisis, War and Union in South Africa 14. Suicide of Sir Hector MacDonald, 1903 : Sex and the British Empire 15. Joseph Chamberlain and the Cabinet Split of 1903 : Tariff Reform, Economic Decline and Imperial Preference 16. Scouting for Boys, 1908 : National Decline, Empire, Youth and Education 17. Imperial Conference of 1911 : The Unity and the Disunity of the Empire [and] Pan-Anglo-Saxonism, and the Pax Britannica 18. Gandhi-Smuts Agreement of January 1914 : Anti-Imperialism, Resistance Movements, and `Occidentalism' versus `Orientalism' 19. The 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland : Britain, the Empire and the First World War 20. Amritsar Massacre of 1919 : Gandhi, the Raj and the Growth of Indian Nationalism, 1915-39

21. The 1924 British Empire Wembley Exhibition : Selling and Buying the Empire-Commonwealth in the Inter-War Years

22. Balfour Definition of Dominion Status, 1926 : The Empire's Constitution, Trade and Development Between the Wars

23. Bodyline Tour of Australia, 1932 : Imperialism, National Identity and Sport

24. Fall of Singapore, February 1942 : Britain, the Empire-Commonwealth and the Second World War

25. Partition of India, 1947 : The Labour Government and the Empire-Commonwealth, 1945 to 1951

26. Trial of Jomo Kenyatta, 1953 : Churchill's Return to Power in Britain [and] The Conservative Holding Operation' [and] Confrontations with Nationalist Movements in Egypt, Cyprus, West and East Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean

27. Suez Crisis of 1956 : The Fall of the British Empire and the Rise of the Commonwealth, and the Common Market

28. Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, November 1965 : Variable Winds of Change, and Wilson's Labour Government, 1964 to 1970

29. Declaration of Commonwealth Principles at Singapore, 1971 : The Commonwealth During the 1970s

30. Falklands War, 1982 : The Remnants of Empire

31. Inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, May 1994 : Post-Colonialism and the Balance Sheet of Empire