The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783 By

The Making and Unmaking of EmpiresBritain, India, and America c.1750-1783\nAuthor(s): P.J. Marshall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199278954, 978-0199278954\nSynopsis\nIn The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a common focus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one. \n\nIn both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent enmity of France, Britain sought to sec.