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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Author’s Note xii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE AND ITS CRISIS
7. 1. The First British Empire, the Whig Supremacy, and the East India Company 19
8. 2. Bourgeois Radicalism and the “Empire of Liberty” in the Age of Pitt 50
9. 3. The Plassey Revolution in Bengal and the Company’s Civil War in Britain 88
10. Part Two. THE MAKING OF THE SECOND BRITISH EMPIRE
11. 4. Clive’s Conquest of East India House and the Company’s Conquest of Bengal 131
12. 5. The New Toryism and the Imperial Reaction at the Accession of George III 165
13. 6. The Triumph of the New Toryism and the Spirit of the Second British Empire 201
14. Epilogue 232
15. Notes 249
16. Index 295