Last Englishmen. Love, War and the End of Empire, Paperback - Deborah Baker

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

Reducere. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the cha...

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The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David AndersonDavid Anderson's troubling account of British conduct during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s comes at a ti...

The continuing story of one of the Founders of the SAS is set in the meticulously researched backdrop of Britain's mid-20th Century default respons...

George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual...

Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examin...

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.

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empirePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eleanor Hubb...

Reducere. "Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy." -Los Angeles Times Book Review, front page In the years after the Sov...

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

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholson BakerBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America ...

Reducere. History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his...

The internationally bestselling account of the transformative period that followed the Armistice in November 1918.

No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organi...

A beautifully written and elegantly constructed narrative that explores the intense, complex and far-reaching female friendships among the Surreali...

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

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...

Reducere. The very title of the last book of the Bible means "unveiling." Yet this mysterious and confusing book seems to do anything but unveil, especially ...

The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book sho...

Reducere. In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking ...

DescriptionJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that a...

Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood whe...

Reducere. An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth c...

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Reducere. DescriptionIndustrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels...

A brilliantly compelling and insightful re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independence of India...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

The future has never looked bleaker . . . or brighter. In a hopeful, inspiring call to action, bestselling author and pastor Don Finto prepares bel...

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South Asia.

IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it aga...

Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer.