British Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Page 7

Yasmin Khan
Undiscovered Heroes of the Second World War

From spies to resistance fighters, and from war reporters to soldiers, Undiscovered Heroes of the Second World War is a collection of untold stories for children aged eight and over exploring the extraord…

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Justin Roberts
Fragile Empire

Through deep archival research, Fragile Empire is the first book to study the rise of slavery in the British empire from a global perspective. Written in an accessible manner, this work will interest unde…

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David A Johnson
The Lasting Legacy of Colonial Cemeteries in South Asia

The work examines how colonial cemeteries reflect the British Empire's history in the region. Nearly two million Europeans were buried in these sites which documented imperial expansion. After 1947, the d…

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Stuart Ward
Untied Kingdom

A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimat…

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Ashley Jackson, Andrew Stewart
Superpower Britain

After WWII, Britain had a vision of renewing and even expanding their Empire, seeing the British Empire as a superpower in a new world order. Superpower Britain looks at what actually happened to Britain …

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Andrew Dilley
Commerce and the Commonwealth

This book offers a fresh take on the economics and politics of the British empire and on the Commonwealth of Nations. It pushes the history of the Commonwealth back to the 1880s and uses evidence from bus…

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Leo Fall (1873-1925)

Die Dollarprinzessin

Christiane Libor, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Angela Mehling, Thomas Mohr, Ferdinand von Bothmer, Ralf Simon, Marko Cilic, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer

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Filippo Maria Sposini
The Certification of Insanity

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and disseminati…

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William R Pinch
From Mutiny to Revolt

Why did the nonviolent Meerut mutiny of 1857 in India explode into a violent military revolt which quickly spread into a subcontinental war that threatened to destroy the British Empire from within? Break…

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Ibero-Dutch Imperial Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century

"By foregrounding the adaptability of the Iberian and Dutch Empires, this volume convincingly challenges the existing scholarship on early modern empires, still largely oriented towards the seemingly…

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Anna Maguire
Contact Zones of the First World War

This is the first in-depth and comparative study of the experience of colonial encounters for troops from the British Empire during the First World War. Drawing on a rich variety of textual and visual mat…

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Esmat Elhalaby
Parting Gifts of Empire

Parting Gifts of Empire narrates an untold story of how Arabs and South Asians in the twentieth century sought to decolonize their minds. The histories of Palestine and India--both partitioned by the Brit…

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Anne Wetherilt
British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel

British Decolonisation and the Female Middlebrow Novel offers the first detailed discussion of middlebrow fiction by women writers who personally witnessed the dismantling of the British Empire, the inten…

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Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imp…

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Satya Shikha Chakraborty
Colonial Caregivers

Colonial Caregivers offers a compelling cultural and social history of ayahs (nannies/maids), by exploring domestic intimacy and exploitation in colonial South Asia. Working for British imperial families …

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Philip Harling
Managing Mobility

Between 1840 and 1860 the British Empire expanded rapidly in scale, with rampant annexation of territory and ruthless suppression of rebellion. These decades also witnessed an unprecedented movement of pe…

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Julia Stephens
Worldly Afterlives

The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world's p…

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Simon Naylor
The Observatory Experiment

In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. During the nineteenth century, meteorologi…

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Robin Robinson
The History of Whiskey

In this beautiful volume, renowned whiskey educator Robin Robinson skilfully chronicles the dynamic evolution of whiskey. In the Middle Ages, monasteries distilled spirits initially to make medicine. Afte…

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Mithi Mukherjee
Asianism and the Fall of Empire

Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire identifies the rise of Asianism in the early twentieth century as the origin and primary driving force of resist…

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