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The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century (1983) explores the impact of a changing society on the legal profession. It also examines the role of the inns of court as forging members of the governing elite and considers the structure of the colonial legal profession.
In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire. The strategies devised by Britain to counter the expansion of European empires into the Middle East are known as the Great Game.
Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization (1984) is a key collection of essays that analyse from many sides the growth and demise of Western imperialism. They examine imperial history, the experience of imperialism, and offer new thoughts on British decolonization.
This book is an indispensable reading for the history of the early modern Mediterranean, self-narratives, Venice, the Ottoman... Læs mere
The extraordinary life and writings of Theodore Laskaris, an imaginative philosopher-emperor ruling... Læs mere
In this biography of Lord Cromer, Roger Owen charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by today's Egyptians, the real ruler of Egypt for a quarter of a century.
The book introduces sources on late Ottoman Istanbul's diverse population by drawing on the voices of its permanent... Læs mere
This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial and poorly understood Byzantine emperor Heraclius (AD 610–641), a contemporary of the Prophet... Læs mere
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.
This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anne Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.
The period of Byzantine Iconoclasm remains in many ways a 'Dark Age'. With this volume Marie-France Auzépy continues her fundamental re-examination of one of the key sources for the time, the Life of Stephen the Younger.