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(Paperback)

By: Helen Pfeifer

ISBN: 9780691224947
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Tamson Pietsch

ISBN: 9780719085024
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Tamson Pietsch

ISBN: 9780719099304
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the networks that linked academics across the British settler world in the age of 'Victorian' globalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, remaps the intellectual geographies of Britain and its empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Calder Walton

ISBN: 9780007457977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The winner of the 2013 Longman-History Today Book Prize is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britains retreat from empire.


(Hardback)

By: Tim Allender

ISBN: 9781526159106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines Roman Catholic female missions within the overlapping ambits of colonial and postcolonial India.


(Hardback)

By: Elizabeth Dillenburg

ISBN: 9781526163516
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides a study of the Girls Friendly Society to examine how the construction of girlhood was intricately tied to constructions of whiteness and ideas of empire. It uses correspondences, newsletters, scrapbooks, and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Martin Francis

ISBN: 9781350124592
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Kent Fedorowich

ISBN: 9780719089565
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume brings together established scholars with a new generation of migration and transnational historians. Their work weaves together the 'new' imperial and the 'new' migration histories, and explores the interplay of migration within and between the local, regional, imperial, and transnational arenas. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Dr Caroline Bressey

ISBN: 9781780936635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Caroline Bressey

ISBN: 9781474233392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Prof Trevor Lloyd

ISBN: 9781852855512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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For almost two hundred years, Britain dominated the world, its naval supremacy enabling it to acquire a vast empire. A dwindling economy, and the cost of two world wars, saw this once-mighty empire crumble, giving in the process independence to nearly all of its dominions. This work offers an account of this extraordinary rise and fall.


(Paperback)

By: Denis Judd

ISBN: 9781848859951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyses the sweep of the British colonial story, from the American Revolution to the present day, illustrating the influence of Britain's imperial past on her place in the twenty-first century. This book is suitable for those who are interested in understanding modern Britain and its imperial history.


(Hardback)

By: Jonathan Israel

ISBN: 9781852850227
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Richard S. Fogarty

ISBN: 9781780764405
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship, and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle


(Paperback)

By: Richard Hall

ISBN: 9780006380832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An examination of the impact of White explorers and settlers upon the people of the Indian Ocean.


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By: Lesley Adkins

ISBN: 9780007129003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the worlds earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.


(Hardback)

By: Philip Dwyer

ISBN: 9781350538641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A global study of violence on four colonial frontiers to explore the dynamics of massacre in a comparative perspective, and to re-think the past oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Thompson

ISBN: 9780465085767
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
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Empires on the Pacific is to be celebrated as one of the best accounts available of the war against Japan.--Toronto Globe and Mail.


(Hardback)

By: Perry Gauci

ISBN: 9781847250292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rising from the ruins of the Great Fire, the 'Square Mile' was the scene of changes of profound significance for society as a whole, and contemporaries recognized the unique qualities of this potent environment. This book examines one of the most dynamic groups in early modern Britain, the overseas merchants of the City of London.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Peter G. Gould

ISBN: 9781350036222
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Peter G. Gould

ISBN: 9781350122307
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Margaret Humphreys

ISBN: 9780552159586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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EMPTY CRADLES is a powerful testament to an ordinary woman's astonishing dedication, compassion and stubborn courage.

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker and mother of two, investigated the case of a woman who claimed that, at the age of four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government.


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By: Rachana Sachdev

ISBN: 9781611484823
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
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Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices.


(Paperback)

By: Rachel Winchcombe

ISBN: 9781526171740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settlement in the New World.

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