Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 9781317876236, 9780582414938

Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 0307425169, 9780307425164

In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the liv

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Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire 9780755626175, 9781860647697

Pink Ice tells the compelling story of the political struggles over Antarctica and the South Atlantic. It shows how Brit

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Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: a Reader 0415929067, 9780415929066

This reader collects together articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of coloni

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Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain 9781350113800, 9781350113794, 9781350113831, 9781350113817

While the British Empire is long gone, it survives as a recurring flashpoint in heated debates about the present and fut

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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain 1472142357, 9781472142351

'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elega

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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain 9781620400395

John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a his

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Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire 9781350069848, 9781350069831, 9781350069855

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War, Diplomacy and Informal Empire: Britain and the Republics of La Plata, 1836-1853 9780755692545, 9781850438670

The massive transformations that occurred in the decade 1940-50 were decisive in shaping the modern history of Southeast

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Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire 9781350069831, 9781350069862, 9781350069848

Who was Learie Constantine? And what can he tell us about the politics of race and race relations in 20th-century Britai

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Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century 9780300183573

As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer st

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