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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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Will the British retain the monarchy and the English church establishment into the 21st century The preservation of the monarchy and of the establishment of the church of England is a matter that cuts deep in fact and theory.

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Takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides. -- .

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Takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. Topics range from newspaper reporting of sodomy cases, to homoerotic representations in art, to queer autobiographical accounts, to oral histories of Scottish lesbians, and much else besides. -- .

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The first book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. The postwar train spotting craze swept most boys (and some girls, despite railways being coded as a male business) into a passion for railways. These people invigorated different sectors in railway enthusiasms life world - from railway modelling to Britains huge preserved railway industry.

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A survey of settler colonialism across the British Empire from 1530 to the present, centering indigenous peoples and cultures in the global history of empire.

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A study of the emotional experiences of brothers and sisters in the First World War and its aftermath. Affectionate sibling bonds sustained the war generation both at home and on the front line, providing a lateral perspective on our understanding of domestic and military masculinities and the longevity of wartime grief and commemoration.

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At the height of slavery in the antebellum south, a free man of color sold himself into indentured servitude and went on to become one of the wealthiest land owners of the time. And in the process built a multi-racial community.

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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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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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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library's extensive special collections.

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Tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. From the businessman's son unable to pack his own suitcase, to the PhD student who pulled herself out of extreme rural poverty, this book shows how these generations embody the hopes and fears of a great nation.

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For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic world for mastery of the Mediterranean. This book offers a glimpse of the long-lost world of war at sea in the age of Byzantium.

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A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This first

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In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical carecaused by slavery, racism, and discriminationsince the arrival of African slaves in America.

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