TY - BOOK

T1 - The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire

AU - Veevers, David

N1 - Due to be published May 2023

PY - 2023/5/25

Y1 - 2023/5/25

N2 - The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster.

AB - The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster.

KW - empire

KW - colonialism

KW - imperialism

KW - indigenous communities

KW - early modern

M3 - Book

SN - 9781529109955

BT - The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire

PB - Penguin

ER -