Curating Empire. Museums and the British Imperial Experience, Paperback - ***

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This ...

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

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

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumsIllustration(s): 25 color plates, 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 20...

Reducere. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories ...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 237 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Graham DominyNumber of pages: 320Collection: History of Military OccupationPublication date: 2016...

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

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

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

Reducere. During the global Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, many called upon the United States to finally face its painful past. Tim Gruenewald's new bo...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jennifer Regan-LefebvreIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrations, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 342Publica...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Adrian KerrisonNumber of pages: 80Collection: Imperial War Museum Photography CollectionPublication date:...

Using rare footage from the film archive at IWM, this flip book shows the famous Sherman tank move up to the front, as a tank squadron prepares for...

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Kate ClementsNumber of pages: 80Collection: Imperial War Museum Photography CollectionPublication date: 2...

In the hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, an unprecedented assemblage of men, weapons, and machines swung into action. The long-awaited, highly sec...

DescriptionThough World War II took place after the development of color photography, nearly all of the familiar images of it are in black and whit...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

An account of the changing attitudes to the way art is presented in the modern museum of art. It examines the relationship between the artist, the ...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history--for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the ...

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

Reducere. "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...ent...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire and British Raj, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: ...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire and British Raj, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: ...

Explores human relationships to objects, shows what museums can learn from them, and offers practical tools and exercises for using objects to crea...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at o...

This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

The Imperial War Museum open its world-famous archives to celebrate the letters, diaries and spoken words of those who witnessed the key events of ...

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .Illustrations: 4 bla...

Reducere. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What ...

Reducere. This is the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalp...

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Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

Publisher: Fordham University PressNumber of pages: 352Collection: Reconstructing AmericaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 29Cover type...

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

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a compre...