British Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

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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Lisa Ford, Kirsten Mckenzie, Naomi Parkinson
Inquiring into Empire

"The first pan-imperial history of commissions of inquiry sent across the British empire between 1819 and 1833. Drawing on the commissioners' extensive archive, this work develops a new understanding…

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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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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 Briti…

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Stuart Anderson
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of &q…

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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 Briti…

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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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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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Rebeca Araya Acosta
Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment i…

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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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Emma Parker,
Life Writing and the End of Empire

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territorie…

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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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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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Anton Wagner
The Spiritualist Prime Minister

The Spiritualist Prime Minister by historian Dr. Anton Wagner presents former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's quest for spirit communication within the historical and cultural contex…

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Rita Paolini, Mauro Elli
Indian National Identity and Foreign Policy

Shedding light on the role of India within twentieth-century international relations, this book explores the life and career of Kavalam Madhava (K. M.) Panikkar (1894¿1963), an Indian historian, statesman…

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Monika Barget,
Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process o…

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John F Shortal
A Search for Strategy

A hallmark of history surrounding Winston Churchill and World War II is that the British-American alliance comprised a "special relationship" of military, political, social, and cultural connect…

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John Withington
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day

Bursting with images from across time, a sparkling chronicle of rockets, pinwheels, and more.This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their mysterious beginnings to the dazzling big…

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Reconstruction

Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and l…

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James Stafford
The Case of Ireland

"In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, Ireland became the object of a vigorous debate concerning the promise and perils of commerce in an era of global war and revolution. This debate con…

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