British Imperial, Hardcover

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

DescriptionBritain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian an...

Reducere. For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

DescriptionOver the ages and in all societies, gallantry in battle has been highly regarded, with the bravery of individuals and fighting forces be...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a...

How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockw...

The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of...

DescriptionThis is a study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806-1831). These relations wer...

Reducere. In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to pro...

Reducere. A comprehensive monograph of artistic travel at the height of British imperial power. Kenneth McConkey takes us around the world to show how Britis...

Reducere. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

Reducere. In The Creole Archipelago, Tessa Murphy traces how generations of Indigenous Kalinagos, free and enslaved Africans, and settlers from a variety of ...

DescriptionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with inde...

DescriptionA comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England...

As police racism unsettles Britain's tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan BoffDuring the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of B...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

Contributor(s): Author: Kori SchakeHistory records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance ...

DescriptionThe impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial ha...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost a...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O'Hara's c...

Reducere. Examination of how and why the British Army became a world-operating force, able to beat varied enemies, written by acclaimed historian and comment...

Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between th...

DescriptionThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It high...

In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politic...

Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. ...

- The story of The Villa Wolkonsky told by one of its recent prestigious residents- Reveals a little-known treasure of The Eternal City- First ever...

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1866, the year after the War for Southern Independence, General Robert E. Lee reflected on the results of the war. Responding to a Br...

This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assiz...

Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. Th...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the ...

In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, place...

Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

DescriptionThe first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the Ameri...

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the Fre...

Reducere. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. -New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer o...