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

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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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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Amanda Nettelbeck
Unsettled Subjects

Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Australia's settler colonies were not only subject to British immigration b…

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Stephen Legg
Round Table Conference Geographies

Round Table Conference Geographies explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British Empire. Pre-dating the decolonising conferences o…

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Stella Meng Wang
Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong

Deploying a spatial approach towards children's everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperia…

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Brian Groom
These Isles

An inventive new look at the entwined histories of Britain and Ireland's nations - and the people who have called them home.Brian Groom, author of the bestselling Northerners, reveals a colourful and ofte…

lieferbar ab 26.2.2026.

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Prue Holstein
The German Experience of Japan's Treaty Port System

German merchants were attracted to the British Empire's spheres of influence in northeast Asia from the 1700s. Their numbers increased when Britain established a network of treaty ports in China from 1842…

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Shane Lynn
Ireland's Opportunity

How the South African War transformed nationalist politics across Ireland's global diaspora In 1899, the British Empire embarked on a deeply controversial war against two small Boer Republics in South Afr…

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William Kelleher Storey
The Colonialist

This is the first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation. This critical work elaborates the life and times of Rhodes, showing how his racist politics impacted mining, industry, transporta…

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Richard T Ryan
The Other Woman

After a mysterious woman arranges an appointment at Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes finds himself thrust into an inquiry with far-reaching implications. What begins as a simple investigation into a missing …

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Victorian Gaslighting

Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gas…

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David Snape
The Chameleon and the Fly

The AmaNdebele War was part of the expansion of the British Empire in Africa in the late Nineteenth Century and part of Cecil Rhodes' plan to expand two Empires: his own through the British South Africa C…

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Aiden Warren, Joseph M. Siracusa
Revisiting the First Cold War

Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Zulu , starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, this volume brings together contributions from leading military historians to analyse changing depictio…

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Audrey Osler
Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really From?

'Part personal family history and part history of the British Empire... Osler is unflinching in her examination... [but her] story is often a hopeful and happy one, including people who crossed boundaries…

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Shin'Ichi Sakamoto
#Drcl Midnight Children, Vol. 5

Dracula meets manga in this surreally beautiful and chilling retelling of Bram Stoker's quintessential horror classic.In this beautiful, evocative, and often surreal retelling of Dracula , a fearsome enem…

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Andreas Malm
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth

The Verso Palestine Pamphlets

Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Pale…

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Alan Allport
Advance Britannia

The author of Britain at Bay--- which The Wall Street Journal said may be "the single best examination of British politics, society, and strategy [from 1938 to 1941] that has ever been written"-…

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Rory Carroll
A Rebel and a Traitor

From the master storyteller behind 2023's critically acclaimed KILLING THATCHERA Rebel and a Traitor is the story of a rogue imperial consul who sought to forge a new nation in the middle of a war - and t…

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Stephen Kirk
Wild Card

Humble computer programmer, Ricky Stern, works for the Electricity Commission in the Eighties, London. On a whim, he decides to fake himself a Commander of the British Empire Award. Surprisingly, this sky…

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Frederick Marryat
Newton Forster; Or, The Merchant Service

Newton Forster or, the Merchant Service is an 1832 novel by the British writer Frederick Marryat. Like much of Marryat's work it is a seafaring novel about a young man impressed into the Royal Navy during…

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