Protecting the Empire's Humanity. Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870, Hardback - Zoe (University of Melbourne) Laidlaw

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an int...

The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-impe...

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collec...

During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

Publisher: Oxford University PressNumber of pages: 576Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 195 x 129 x 19Cover type...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

The never-before told story of how Napoleon's top brass escaped to America after Waterloo.Illustrations: 14 Halftones, color; 19 Halftones, black a...

Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's d...

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...

A consistent undercurrent has been Britain's preference for the real world (landscape and portraiture) as against "high" art and abstraction. This ...

Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komag...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Karen (British Academy Global Professor of Children's Literature, Newcastle University, UK...

Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of ...

A sweeping history of early American trade and the foundation of the American economyPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Thomas M. TruxesNum...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

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Tells the life story of E.W. Cole, a colourful and much loved figure of 19th century Melbourne. Best remembered for his Funny Picture Books, his se...

This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contempo...

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

Impunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several internatio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David L. FersterIllustration(s): 89 b/w illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Reducere. How did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade sp...

"First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Seaforth Publishing"--T.p. verso.

German Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well ...

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In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary eraPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre fo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Zoe PlaydonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 42Cover type: HardbackR...

A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920Publisher: Yale Universi...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Isla...

Explores an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian graphic humour is marvelously rich in pictori...

Showcases the colourful histories of some spectacular vineyards and historic buildings, exploring the wine industry's transformation into an export...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

This innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history.Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

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Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between th...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Gregory SholetteIllustration(s): 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 176Collection...

Offering an innovative account of Britain's counter-radicalisation policy, Prevent, this book provides a timely analysis of the UK's response to th...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Kimberly (Associate Professor of Art, Associate Professor of Art, Wellesley College) CassibryIllus...

This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and inte...

Reducere. Isabelle Steiger has crafted a powerful and masterful debut with The Empire's Ghost, the first book in a haunting new epic fantasy series.The empir...