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By: Georgina Sinclair

ISBN: 9780719071393
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation - an explosive era marked by political upheaval and colonial conflict.


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By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9780719099731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s. -- .


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By: Robert Aldrich

ISBN: 9781526151667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s. -- .


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By: Saurabh Mishra

ISBN: 9780719089725
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative. -- .


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By: Lucy Chester

ISBN: 9780719091360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Dana Rabin

ISBN: 9781526164957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London - from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics. -- .


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By: Dana Rabin

ISBN: 9781526120403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London - from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics. -- .


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By: Shohei Sato

ISBN: 9781526118837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.


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By: Shohei Sato

ISBN: 9780719099687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.


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By: Robert Bickers

ISBN: 9780719056970
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a book-length study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support.


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By: Anna Bocking-Welch

ISBN: 9781526151674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public's sense of international responsibility. -- .


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By: Anna Bocking-Welch

ISBN: 9781526131270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public's sense of international responsibility. -- .


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By: Josh Doble

ISBN: 9781526182548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.


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By: Josh Doble

ISBN: 9781526159748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to shape the cultures, politics, spaces and memories of contemporary Britain. The essays it contains illustrate this with reference to a series of local histories, individual texts and institutions.


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By: Stuart Ward

ISBN: 9780719060489
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Studying the demise of the British Empire after World War II from a cultural perspective rather than a political or economic one, this text argues that the social and cultural impact of decolonisation had as significant an effect on the imperial centre as on the colonial periphery.


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By: Andrekos Varnava

ISBN: 9780719079030
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus. This book follows Cyprus' progress from a perceived imperial asset to an expendable backwater by explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered.


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By: Andrekos Varnava

ISBN: 9780719086403
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus' importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural signifiers and myths. -- .


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By: Benjamin Steiner

ISBN: 9781526143235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. -- .


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By: Benjamin Steiner

ISBN: 9781526167019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. -- .


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By: Emma Robertson

ISBN: 9780719090059
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material.


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By: Gareth Atkins

ISBN: 9781526143044
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.


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By: Gareth Atkins

ISBN: 9781526160201
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.


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By: Peter Yeandle

ISBN: 9781526149350
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks. -- .


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By: Peter Yeandle

ISBN: 9780719080128
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks. -- .

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