Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World 9781641770392, 2018044783, 9781641770385

Imperial obituary : the mysterious death of the British empire

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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 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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Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World 9780520975088

A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history o

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An Imperial World at War: The British Empire, 1939–45 [1 ed.] 1472462106, 9781472462107

At the start of the Second World War, Britain was at the height of its imperial power, and it is no surprise that it dre

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The Ottoman Empire and the World around it 9780857730237, 0857730231

In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan - the perceived

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Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age 9780823298679

This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as

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Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies 1138950874, 9781138950870

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a varie

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The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire 9781474278874, 9781474278867, 9781474278904, 9781474278898

The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since m

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Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire 0520375939, 9780520375932

In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus i

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