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Article: Marshall, P.J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783.(Book review)
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Marshall, P. J. The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America e. 1750-1783 Oxford: Oxford University Press 398 pp., $53.42, ISBN 0-19-927895-4 Publication Date: June 2005
P. J. Marshall is a renowned historian of the British in eighteenth century India and this synthesis of scholarship and the result of his lectures is a valuable and readable volume. It builds on his expertise on India to examine the connections between the loss of the thirteen colonies and the creation of empire in India. This occurred during the period 1750 to 1783 but it was the Seven Years' War between 1756 and 1763 that was the common denominator between the two events. The ...