The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750. New ed, Paperback - ***

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...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

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

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

'British prehistory will never look the same again.' Professor Colin Renfrew, University of CambridgePublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): ...

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

Documents that process, challenging common myths - including the importance of a popular anchor, and television's inability to communicate non-visu...

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 legendary splendor of Genoese baroque artGenoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Euro...

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

Now in its 5th edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a Eur...

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

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...

This is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru's imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island's significance in the history of...

Talented historian Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startli...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles HolcombeCharles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

This Element provides a new evaluation of burial customs in New Kingdom Egypt, from about 1550 to 1077 BC, with an emphasis on burials of the wider...

Paperback edition of a monumental new history by the Churchill College, Cambridge author of Eminent Edwardians and Dark Valley, full of brief lives...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

Publisher: The Merlin Press LtdAuthor(s): Francis BeckettNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 212 x 137 x 21Cover type: Paperback ...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

One aspect that overwhelmingly defines the second half of the 20th century is the remarkable economic growth of Asia. This book offers a comprehens...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British ...

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This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

Reducere. In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupatio...

Reducere. The book Rise and Fall of Maratha Empire deals with the events related to the Maratha Empire from 1758 during the reign of Peshwa Balaji Bajirao, w...

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlig...

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

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

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...

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