Imperial Encore, Volume 18: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire, Paperback - Caroline Ritter

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

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...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

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

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 ...

Jamg n Kongtrul Lodr Taye presents practical teachings from a variety of Tibetan Buddhist traditions in this volume of The Treasury of Precious Ins...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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. 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: ...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

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. Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ``postmodernism.`` Jameson's inquiry looks at the po...

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...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 54 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2016...

Jameson's study of the cultural, political and social implications of postmodernism.

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

Reducere. They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges...

Reducere. The author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them...

The final volume in a gripping collection of Laymon classics

DescriptionThis major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate ...

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book exam...

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

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

A fascinating history of illuminated manuscripts within the Holy Roman Empire.Publisher: D Giles LtdAuthor(s): Joshua O'DriscollIllustration(s): 15...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 51 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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 ...