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By: Anita Anand
ISBN: 9781471174247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A gripping story of a twenty-year quest for revenge after one of the most horrific Raj atrocities.
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By: Noam Chomsky
ISBN: 9798888902622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time.
(Hardback)
By: Martin Gilbert
ISBN: 9780743294942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)
By: Des Ekin
ISBN: 9781788493697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2024
Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
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It's no secret that Britain achieved its empire through forceful, and often brutal, methods. Many nations are still grappling with the dark legacy of colonisation. Des Ekin lays out some of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the British and explores the justifications used for such violent actions.
(Paperback, New Edition)
By: Margaret MacMillan
ISBN: 9780500293744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A new edition of this vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers and wives of the men at the centre of a daring imperialist experiment, revealing India in all its richness and vitality.
By: Professor Antoinette Burton
ISBN: 9781350358232
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines 2,500 years of the cultural history of western empires from antiquity through to the 21st century
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By: John T. Ducker
ISBN: 9781788317351
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
ISBN: 9781847394606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Richard Gott
ISBN: 9781839764226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Verso Books
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A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.
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By: Warren Dockter
ISBN: 9781788319249
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Jacob T. Levy
ISBN: 9780739142929
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Nigel Biggar
ISBN: 9780008511630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Sunday Times Bestseller
A new assessment of the Wests colonial record
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the End of History that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever.
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By: Edward W Said
ISBN: 9780099967507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1994
UK Publication Date: 6th January 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Hegenbart
ISBN: 9781350227729
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Ulises A. Mejias
ISBN: 9780753560204
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Brian P. Farrell
ISBN: 9781472596666
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A two-volume set exploring the history of Empire in Asia from the 13th to the long 19th centuries.
By: Brian P. Farrell
ISBN: 9781350182141
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A two-volume set exploring the history of Empire in Asia from the 13th to the long 19th centuries.
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By: Sven Beckert
ISBN: 9780141979984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business. This book tells the history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is also a case history of how the world works.
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By: Jeremy Paxman
ISBN: 9780670919598
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
(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: Larry Collins
ISBN: 9780006388517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 12th June 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The story of India's struggle for independence, told in this account (first published in 1975) by two journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi.
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By: John O'Regan
ISBN: 9781850437772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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John O'Regan's career in the British Colonial Service saw him serve in Ceylon, Jamaica, Uganda and, finally, Iran. In this book he gives an account of the concerns of the Overseas Civil Service during the period spanning the end of the empire and the emergence of independent nation-states.
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By: Kwasi Kwarteng
ISBN: 9781408829004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fascinating book shows how the later years of the British Empire were characterised by accidental oversights, irresponsible opportunism and uncertain pragmatism
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By: Andrew Otis
ISBN: 9781804441657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
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The fascinating story of India's first newspaper, Hicky's Bengal Gazette, and its founder, Irishman James Hicky, who used his newspaper to call out the corruption of British imperialists.
