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A compelling history of Britain's complicated and compromised relationship with China between the start of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997

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* An extraordinary narrative of the richest and most powerful men and women in our history

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How in a hundred years Europeans coerced Africa into their various empires - and how Africa decolonised itself.

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This is the story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan.

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The history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of those involved in conquering, settling and ruling the greatest Empire the world has seen.

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A compelling and entertaining history of the British middle class by the bestselling author of THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, RAJ and WARRIOR RACE.

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* War and the British People - from Roman military occupation to the Gulf War two thousand years later.

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Great Britain's geopolitical role in the global scheme of things has undergone many radical changes over the last four centuries. This book examines the imperial experience and its legacy.