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Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconstructs the networks and activities of Britain’s engineers while focusing on London as a centre of imperial expansion.
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The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model... Læs mere
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This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the... Læs mere
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British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial images... Læs mere
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A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the... Læs mere
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As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465–1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish Empire.... Læs mere
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Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power... Læs mere
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When Alfred Milner was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our common country'. This is the study of Milner, which... Læs mere
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Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of... Læs mere
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Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English... Læs mere
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Laws that were imposed by colonizers were as much an attempt to confirm their own identity as to control the more... Læs mere
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