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Rebeca Araya Acosta
Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Azhar Ul Haque Sario
How Great Empires Shaped History

Do you want to understand how the world evolved into its current state?This book is your guide. It explores history's biggest empires. Our coverage extends to the British empire, the Mongol empire, and th…

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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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Leslie Rogne Schumacher
The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain

This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire¿s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political leaders, journalists and the general public responded to …

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Sophie Shorland
The Lost Queen

*A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2024*An enthralling and vivid portrait of Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II, that reveals her forgotten place in history.A long-overlooked figure in histo…

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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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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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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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