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100 1  Gott, Richard,|d1938- 
245 10 Britain's empire :|bresistance, repression and revolt /
       |cRichard Gott. 
264  1 London ;|aNew York :|bVerso Books,|c2011. 
300    vii, 568 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [531]-547) and 
       index. 
505 0  The challenge to imperial power : Native Americans, 
       Caribbean slaves, Indian princes and Irish peasants, 1755-
       72: Native American resistance during the French and 
       Indian War ; The last great native American rebellions ; 
       Slave rebellions in the Caribbean ; Treaties and 
       proclamation mark the end of the French and Indian War ; 
       Muslim resistance in Bengal and Mysore ; Peasant 
       resistance in Ireland -- White settler revolt in America, 
       and fresh resistance in Canada, India and the Caribbean, 
       1770-89: Episodes of resistance during the American War of
       Independence ; Native American resistance to fur traders 
       in Western Canada ; The resistance in Southern India -- 
       The loss of America creates a need for new prisons abroad 
       and a place to settle Black 'Empire Loyalists', 1786-1802:
       The British search for distant gulags ; The Black settlers
       of Sierra Leone -- Britain expands its counter-
       revolutionary empire during the war against revolutionary 
       France, 1793-1802: Resistance to empire in the Caribbean 
       in the wake of the French Revolution ; Slaves and 'Free 
       Coloureds' in the French islands of the Caribbean resist 
       absorption in the Empire ; Europe's revolutionary conflict
       spreads to South Africa ; The Dutch empire in Ceylon ; The
       Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 ; Tipu Sultan and the final 
       resistance of Indian forces in Mysore -- Resistance to 
       imperial expansion during the wars against Napoleon, 1803-
       15: Rebellions, revolts and mutinies in the Caribbean ; 
       The resistance of the Marathas to the British invasion of 
       Central India ; Mutiny and revolt by Muslim sepoys and 
       European officers ; Rebellion in Australia and the 
       slaughter of aborigines ; Resistance in South Africa, 
       South America and Egypt ; Slave rebellion, Xhosa 
       resistance, and White settler revolt in Cape Colony ; 
       British penetration into the Persian Gulf ; The British 
       seizure of Mauritius, the Seychelles and Indonesia ; 
       Bulbhadar Singh and the Gurkha resistance in Nepal ; The 
       British conquest of Kandy -- Slave revolts, White 
       settlement, indigenous extermination, and the advance into
       Burma and Assam, 1816-30: Slave rebellions in the 
       Caribbean ; The Battle of Seven Oaks, Canada ; Revolts and
       resistance in Central India ; Revolt, fresh settlement and
       extermination in Cape Colony ; The British base and prison
       on the island of Singapore ; Years of unrest culminate in 
       a fresh revolt in Ireland ; Aborigine resistance in 
       Australia and White retaliation ; The Ashanti defeat the 
       British at Esamankow ; The Burmese Empire fights back ; 
       Tea and strategy : the Rajahs and Hill peoples of Assam 
       rebel -- An end to colonial slavery and resistance to 
       fresh settlement, 1830-38: Slave rebellions in the 
       Caribbean hasten the end of slavery ; White settlers 
       devise new ways to hunt the Australian aborigines ; The 
       Whitefeet in Ireland oppose the payment of tithes and rent
       ; White settler rebellions and Buddhist resistance in the 
       East ; Resistance in the Strait of Malacca ; Resistance on
       the Gambia River in West Africa ; The end of slavery in 
       Cape Colony, the Rebellion of Maqoma, and the flight of 
       the Boer farmers ; White settler rebellions in Canada -- 
       Imperial humiliation and further expansion, 1839-47: The 
       capture of useful imperial harbours ; Revolts among the 
       Hill tribes of Assam ; Resistance to the British invasion 
       of Afghanistan ; The resistance of the Amirs of Sind is 
       reinforced by their Baluchi soldiers ; The long struggle 
       of the Sikhs in the Punjab ; Aborigine resistance in 
       Victoria and Queensland ; Maori resistance in New Zealand 
       ; Muslim resistance in Sarawak ; The penultimate battles 
       of the Xhosa in Cape Colony -- Prelude to the Mutiny, 1848
       -53: William Smith O'Brien and the rising of the young 
       Irelanders ; Dr Christopher Elliott, Wikrama Sardawa 
       Siddhapa and the Rebellion of the Kandy Pretenders ; The 
       final rebellion of the Xhosa in Cape Colony ; West African
       resistance ; The start of an endless saga : the north-west
       frontier territories of India ; The Burmese empire resists
       further invasion -- The gathering storm, 1854-58: The 
       Taiping Rebellion spreads unrest among Chinese communities
       elsewhere ; White settler rebellion in Australia and 
       further aborigine resistance ; The Santals in Bengal and 
       the Moplahs in Malabar ; James Sayers Orr and the 'Angel 
       Gabriel' riots in Guyana ; Nongqawuse and the self-
       destruction of the Xhosa in Cape Colony ; The great 
       rebellion in India. 
520 8  This text reveals a history of systemic repression and 
       almost perpetual violence, showing how British rule was 
       imposed as a military operation and maintained as a 
       military dictatorship. 
650  0 Government, Resistance to|xColonies|zGreat Britain
       |xHistory. 
650  0 Government, Resistance to|zCommonwealth countries
       |xHistory. 
650  0 Imperialism|xHistory. 
651  0 Great Britain|xColonies|xHistory. 
651  0 Commonwealth countries|xHistory. 
651  0 Great Britain|xCivilization. 
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