Cultural Construction of the British World, Paperback - ***

The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered ne...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global h...

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

Publisher: Manchester University PressAuthor(s): Joseph HardwickNumber of pages: 296Collection: Studies in ImperialismPublication date: 2021Dimensi...

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...

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In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 42 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 322Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 178 x 253 x 31C...

Reducere. The ultimate museum experience in book form - become intimately acquainted with the world's most precious objects. Revered, admired, protected - ev...

This is an atlas with a difference. This atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getti...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

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Join humanity on the brink of destruction in 13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring rare tales from the Library's vaults.

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each bo...

Contributor(s): Author: Angus KonstamThis title tells the dramatic story of how the Royal Navy transformed ordinary citizens into first-rate and fe...

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

Broadening in scope, Part Two offers a revisionary reading of Empire and Otherness on the musical stage, and concludes with a consideration of the ...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, h...

"British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War".

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In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful the world had ever seen - but what was the everyday experience of those who served i...

The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the per...

Reducere. DescriptionPaula Morton provides a fun, concise introduction to jai alai, a fast-paced ball game with ancient roots that is admired by fans for the...

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This timely collection of essays explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European ent...

DescriptionBringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, Cultural Histories of the Material World prov...

This sweeping volume provides a thorough accounting of Gramsci's relevance to the history of science.Publisher: Haymarket BooksNumber of pages: 440...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKIllustration(s): 883 photographsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 287 x 33C...

This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent o...

From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, th...

Poison gas was one of the most fearful weapons of its day. In 1915, the only item a soldier had to protect himself from the harmful effects of gas ...

Reducere. Cross-Cultural Management Textbook is a practical course-book that synthesizes in a practical way contemporary cross-cultural communication and man...

The sixth edition of British Cultural Identities assesses the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who belong ...

In Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I, well-known scholars of history, political science, film, literature, and cultural studies explor...

This volume covers the many variations of Royal Navy wartime escort destroyers, both the purpose-built Hunt' class and the conversions from older f...

Publisher: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, U.S.Author(s): Marla C. BernsIllustration(s): 309 color illus.Number of pages: 360Publication date: 2...

Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down. How One Generation of British Actors Changed the World - Robert Sellers

Fully illustrated account of how British aircraft manufacturers vied to create the best fighter to counter German technology during World War I.Ill...

This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associ...

The complete history of the building of PT boats for the U.S. Navy at the Elco, Higgins, and Huckins plants. One hundred sixty-two full-page illust...

Reducere. The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America ...

Reducere. The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflections on the gospel reading assigned for each Sunday in Cycle A of the Roman Lectionary. E...