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

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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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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John Broich
White Supremacy

When did whiteness begin? Was its rise inevitable? In this powerful history, John Broich traces the emergence, evolution and contradictions of white supremacy, from its roots in the British empire, to the…

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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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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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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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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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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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Preet S Aulakh
Empire and the Peasant Proprietor

As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the 19th century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated careful considerations about land tenure relationships…

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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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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…

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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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Kate Foster
The Repentants

The chilling tale of two women, forever bonded in their exile to the world's most desolate prison . . . Inspired by the real-life, unsuccessful attempt by Scottish landowners to annex Iceland for the Brit…

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Rick Atkinson
The British Are Coming

This striking graphic novel adapts the first half of the New York Times bestselling The British Are Coming, the opening volume in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's extraordinary trilogy abo…

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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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