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This study attempts to explain the development of Tokugawa-period political attitudes, as shown in the writings of the major thinkers of the time and as exemplified in the life of a nineteenth-century samurai.

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Emperor Charles V - ruled a conglomeration of territory more extensive than that previously held by any ruler in European history. The relationship between the will of an individual and the power of structures in times of such mutability is at the core of Blockman's enquiry.

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In this thought provoking study, Pieterse breaks with traditional studies of imperialism to present a more balanced view of history, one that examines the logic of liberation as well as the logic of imperialism.

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The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -- .

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The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -- .

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This books offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750. -- .

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The 1870s is a key decade in the evolution of British thinking about the nature, purpose and future of empire. This book documents the writings that were central to this debate, and includes contributions by British thinkers, statesmen and officials such as J.A. Froude and Robert Lowe.

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Explores Russia's military and demographic competition with the Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire for control of the Black Sea steppe in the eighteenth century.

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Explores Russia's military and demographic competition with the Crimean Khanate and Ottoman Empire for control of the Black Sea steppe in the eighteenth century. This book examines how these conflicts characterized the course of Russian military development in response to Ottoman and Crimean Tatar threats.

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Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s. -- .

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Using oral histories and archival records from Barbados, Britain and the United States, and engaging with the role of gender in defining and building nationhood and citizenship, Mary Chamberlain challenges previous histories of Caribbean decolonisation which focus on one perspective alone.

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Waziristan, a region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has in recent years become a flash point in the so-called 'War on Terror'.

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This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context. -- .

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Explores British imperial unity at the outbreak of the Second World War and how this ultimately led to its own dissolution in post-war years. This book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict.

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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. -- .

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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. -- .

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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.

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This book examines Roman Catholic female missions within the overlapping ambits of colonial and postcolonial India.