Entente Imperial: British and French Power in the Age of Empire 9781398102897

Imperial obituary : the mysterious death of the British empire

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Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire 9780198827375, 0198827377

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Cha

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William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service 1469639513, 9781469639512

William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to st

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Outskirts of empire : studies in British power projection 9781351042703, 135104270X

"This book investigates the substructure of Britain's interests in the Near East and beyond during the ninetee

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British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn’t 9780755621781, 9780857726155

The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a ‘great’ enterprise,

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Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire 9781350986787, 9781786732514

In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation use

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The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire 9781501731709

What price do states pay for becoming and remaining world powers? Why did the first greatly expanded British Empire coll

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Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon 9780806155333, 0806155337

When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message

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The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico 9780300210767

This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish i

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Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire 9781108830669, 9781108902700, 2020047668, 2020047669

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