Culloden. Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire, Paperback - Trevor Royle

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...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...

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

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...

One of The Christian Science Monitor's ten best books of JuneAn innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe--highlighting his fascination and feuds wit...

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

DescriptionOn the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were C...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard VinenNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Why has democracy flourished in the Federal Republic of Germany? This book illuminates the pivotal role played by the half million veterans of the ...

* The first major single history of the Wars of the Roses for decades, written by renowned popular and military historian, Trevor Royle, out now in...

Reducere. Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando...

DescriptionTrevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gav...

* First complete general history of the English Civil War from its outbreak in 1639 to the last battle in 1659.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupA...

DescriptionAn astonishing trilogy of books, collected in one volume, documenting the tumultuous first half of the 20th century in Spain The Forging...

Reducere. With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth centu...

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...

Reducere. Description1968 was a particularly tumultuous year in American history. The escalating war in Vietnam, the riots during the Democratic Convention, ...

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

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