Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain 9780241445334, 0241445337

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
9780241445334, 0241445337

A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that ex

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A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that ex

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"A bestselling British author's American debut-in this brilliantly illuminating work exploring the realities a

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Why are people getting fatter? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of curbing population grow

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Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of these twenty-first century problems can be found where the

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How the CBC recast Canadian history for television and influenced what we know and how we think about the Canadian past.

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How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this

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Who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What does it mean to be the

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What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we

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An investigation into the relationship between science and music – from Pythagoras to the Moog synthesizer. In this ne

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