Colonisation of Time. Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire, Paperback - Giordano Nanni

The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component...

The follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the...

Paperback edition of a monumental new history by the Churchill College, Cambridge author of Eminent Edwardians and Dark Valley, full of brief lives...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British ...

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-establish...

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirica...

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, i...

Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

Hardly anyone paid attention when Sultan Khan arrived in London on April 26, 1929. A humble servant from a village in the Punjab, Khan had little f...

Reducere. David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imper...

DescriptionFilms for the Colonies examines the British Government's use of film across its vast Empire from the 1920s until widespread independence...

Trevor Royle does for Culloden what Juliet Barker did for Agincourt, bringing us the definitive account of the battle and its wider role in the cre...

Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy - James Williams

Reducere. A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire--and the intrepid empire-builders--that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australi...

From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia and South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, British men and women, with no training, were...

'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' ObserverPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. --New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this dramatic tale of discovery (San Francisco Chronicle), th...

With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and ...

For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from...

Reducere. Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement is a pioneering study of women's resistance in the emergent Rastafari movement in colonial Jam...

Reducere. Prologue1. A Five-year Project: 3, 000 Nights2.The Israelis and My Home: Under the Rubble (1983) and Children of Fire (1989)3.The Green Line: War G...

DescriptionHow rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were acti...

War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the sur...

During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanat...

Reducere. Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 56 colour & 60 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 253 x 195 x 27Cov...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): Lori RogersNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ens...

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

Reducere. Winner of the Jewish Book Council Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewis...