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A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today
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How citizens became immigrants: Britain's failure to create a post-imperial nation.
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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. The author seeks to challenge our understanding of British imperialism there.
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Focusing on Britain and her Empire, this survey provides an introduction for readers coming to the subject for the first time. It covers the economics and politics of expansion, and the social and cultural impact of the Empire.
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The Jameson Raid and its effects on Governments and individuals in their attempts to expand the British Empire.
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Drawing on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field, this wide-ranging volume covers key... Læs mere
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Amanda Nettelbeck explores how policies protecting the civil rights of indigenous peoples across the British Empire were entwined with reforming them as governable colonial subjects, whether through conciliatory, coercive or punitive measures.
Søstrene Mabel og Irene Lorrimer er ikke opdraget til at arbejde, og det kan alle åbenbart se på dem. Helt fra de var små, har det fået at vide, at det vigtigste var, at de så godt ud, var... Læs mere
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Assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- .
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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 born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India.
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Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. He argues that India's colonial... Læs mere
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Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British... Læs mere