Persistence of vision: writing the history of the British empire

Nicholas Canny (ed), The Oxford history of the British empire. Volume I: The origins of empire, British overseas enterprise to the close of the seventeenth century (Oxford a n d N e w York, Oxford Un ive r s i t y Press , 1998), 533 pp, bibl. m a p s , index, ISBN 0 19 820562 7 P J Marshal l (ed), The Oxford history of the British empire. Volume II: The eighteenth century (Oxford and New York, Oxford Univers i ty Press, 1998), 639 lap, bibl. maps , index, ISBN 9 780198 205630 A n d r e w P o r t e r (ed), The Oxford history of the British empire. Volume III: The nineteenth century (Oxford a n d N e w York, Oxford Un ive r s i t y Press , 1999), 774 pp, bibl . , m a p s , index, ISBN 0 19 8205651 J u d i t h M B r o w n a n d W Roger Louis (eds), The Oxford history of the British empire. Volume IV: The twentieth century (Oxford a n d N e w York, Oxford Un ive r s i t y Press 1999), 773 pp, bibl. m a p s , index, ISBN