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Billy Wellman
Dive into the epic saga of global dominance in The British Empire . In this riveting journey, you'll explore how a tiny island nation ascended to rule nearly a quarter of the globe. From the Age of Di
174,95 kr.
Adam Dawkins
How did a small, rainy island on the edge of Europe come to rule over a quarter of the world's population? The story of the British Empire is often told as a grand adventure of brave explorers and civ
129,95 kr.
Oxford University Press
From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world
Fra 100 kr.
Robert Morris
The British Empire was a lot more important than most recognize. Its propagandists, 100 years ago and today, like to pretend that it was just one among many competing empires. This book shows that in
214,95 kr.
Oxford University Press
The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East. Seeking to capt
351 kr.
David Armitage og Armitage David
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial id
269,95 kr.
Devon Kade
THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Summarized
How did a small, rain-swept island in the North Atlantic rise to command a quarter of the globe and a fifth of all humanity? Forget the sanitized, polite myths of benevolent governors and civilized af
199,95 kr.
HarperCollins Publishers
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part
Fra 126 kr.
Oxford University Press
Throughout today''s postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain''s once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures a
499 kr.
Oxford University Press
Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands. Using recently opened archives, Winding Up the British Empire
409 kr.
Yale University Press
A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world
286 kr.
Penguin Books Ltd
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world''s greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to
160 kr.
Penguin Random House Children's UK
An accessible, engaging and essential introduction to the British empire for readers aged 9+, by bestselling author of Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera. You've probably heard the word 'empire' before. Per
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Rita Rhodes
Cooperative businesses, run by their own members, apply the principles of equality, mutuality, democracy and economy. Empire and Cooperation traces how and why the British Empire came to promote coope
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Vintage Publishing
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a revelatory, fearless history of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. In this groundbreaking wo
Fra 165 kr.
Pennsylvania State University Press
In Projecting Citizenship, Gabrielle Moser gives a comprehensive account of an unusual project produced by the British governments Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee at the beginning of the
195 kr.
Oxford University Press Inc
An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain.When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world aft
333 kr.
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely. New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the World
126 kr.
Penguin Books Ltd
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to t
Fra 126 kr.
Shashi Tharoor
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empi
214,95 kr.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and
Fra 389,95 kr.
The University of Chicago Press
In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) undertaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain emp
407 kr.
The University of Chicago Press
One takes liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Singh Mehta argues that impe
370 kr.
Stuart Ward
British Culture and the End of Empire
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference
249,95 kr.
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