Egypt 1801. The End of Napoleon's Eastern Empire, Hardback - Stuart Reid

Describes the events leading up to the French invasion of Egypt, and the disastrous Battle of the Nile.Illustrations: 1x16 colour plates

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Uther Charlton-StevensNumber of pages: 370Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 223 x 41Cover ty...

How citizens became immigrants: Britain's failure to create a post-imperial nation.

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Middle Eastern Christians are often portrayed as a homogeneous, helpless group ever at the mercy of their Muslim enemies, a situation that only Wes...

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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Rava...

Reducere. In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the ...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Reducere. This edition covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The author gives the c...

One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage ne...

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A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Stuart ReidIllustration(s): Ill.Number of pages: 144Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 215 x 147 x 9Cover...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ronald A. BleekerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

Christian Jacq, author of the international triumphs Ramses and The Stone of Light, brings the people and passions of ancient Egypt to life in an e...

What is a poor teenage girl from the French settlement in India to do, betrayed by her husband, her family separated by war and given up by a patro...

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This book explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German phi...

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

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DescriptionThough pressed many times to write about his battles and campaigns, the Duke of Wellington always replied that people should refer to hi...

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During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

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Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

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This revisionist history challenges current ideas about convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion. It examines r...

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Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

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The collapse of the Ottoman Empire is a key event in the shaping of modern times. From its ruin rose new countries including Syria and Turkey. This...

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Naoki Sakai examines the decline of US hegemony in Japan and East Asia and its impact on national identity and legacies of imperialism.Publisher: D...