The British Empire

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

DescriptionUnderstanding the British Empire draws on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior...

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a compre...

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 ...

The follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power

Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew t...

During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa...

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-establish...

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

By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of t...

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, i...

From the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

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...

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

This important new book looks at the crucial role played by Indian soldiers in the control, and expansion, of the British Empire. Marking the 75th ...

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...

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The book is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that European concepts of time were imposed on other cultures as a component...

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...

Reducere. The British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the ...

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

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: ...

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

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...

Publisher: Bookmarks PublicationsAuthor(s): John NewsingerNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 211 x 135 x 22Cover type: Paperback...

After writing Elementary Geography for earlier grades, Ms Mason wrote this book, the second in her series of five readers, to teach students about ...

Reducere. A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greate...

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This book explores the life and career of the 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902). It links the landowning and aristocratic culture he was...

After writing Elementary Geography for earlier grades, Ms Mason wrote this book, the second in her series of five readers, to teach students about ...

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the...

Reducere. A brawling, rambunctious history celebrating the Empire--and the intrepid empire-builders--that gave the United States, Canada, India, and Australi...

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: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Paddy DochertyIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication da...

A powerful meditation on the influence of the British Empire in the Middle East, intertwining history, politics, poetry, myth and personal experien...

'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' ObserverPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s...

Explodes the myth that after Trafalgar, Martello towers and other coastal-defence infrastructure were unnecessary.Illustrations: 70 colour illustra...

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovat...

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 ...

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

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

A powerful meditation on the influence of the British Empire in the Middle East, intertwining history, politics, poetry, myth and personal experien...

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...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta HarrisonIllustration(s): 1 map. 36 b/w illus.Number of pages: ...

Reducere. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. -New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer o...

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

A new edition of this vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers and wives of the men at the centre of a daring imperiali...

Reducere. Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

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

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

Reducere. While it is well known that more Africans fought on behalf of the British than with the successful patriots of the American Revolution, Gerald Horn...

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian periodPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies ...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire celebrated its centenary year in 2017. In the past one hundred years, the order has gone from a way ...

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

The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia - James Hevia

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

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Gay WachmanRedesc...

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

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

Reducere. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decrea...

Reducere. Change your life in Hospitality forever.In this book, I will show you the way to change your service life forever. I will guide you through the 5 G...

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