Edge of Empire. Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850, Paperback - Maya Jasanoff

Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startli...

This collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...

This Element examines the reception of their music during this dynamic period in British musical history, and places the discussion within the cont...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Dr Rudolf (University of Konstanz, Germany) SchloeglTranslator: Dr Helen ImhoffNumber of p...

This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the...

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A study of the first encounters between Spanish explorers and the indigenous tribes of the Americas, this work focuses on the life and times of Fra...

AD 43. Time is running out for Emperor Claudius's invasion force in Britannia. The second novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire...

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Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth,...

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The story of the Imperial Japanese Army's victory over the British forces during World War II, focusing on the significance of the aerial campaign ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

The third book in the action-packed Tales of Rome series for middle-grade readers age 8-12Publisher: SPCK PublishingAuthor(s): Kathy LeeIllustratio...

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Phillips reveals how Mughal, Manchu and Western imperialists developed common strategies of 'define and conquer' and 'define and rule' to subjugate...

Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival...

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I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival...

It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations th...

Describes Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special r...

DescriptionFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almos...

This book reveals, for the first time, a hitherto unexplored dimension of Britain's engagement with the post-war Middle East: the counter-subversiv...

In this engaging work, 2002 Bolton-Jonhson Prize Winner Eric Van Young captures the crucial hundred years of Mexico's remarkable transition from a ...

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The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the inters...

Reducere. In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces now rule the land, keeping all humans under their oppressive thumbs.In the darkness of the...

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Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Ralph JacksonIllustration(s): Illustrated in colour throughoutNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2010D...

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Contributor(s): Author: Eric GrynaviskiThroughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and reb...

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Describes and analyses the campaigns that saw the rise of the Roman empire in the East.Illustrations: 17 black and white illustrations

Reducere. A murdered teen is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century in the sweeping epic Entertainment Weekly named one of the best books of 2...