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British Abolitionism in Hannah More's 'Slavery, A Poem'

by Peggy Zawadil
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: In the following, the author wants to explore in what way the poem 'Slavery, A Poem' by Hannah More serves abolitionist means. A quote...

Benjamin Franklin in London

The British Life of America's Founding Father

by George Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

For more than one-fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain’s most esteemed intellectuals—including David Hume, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin—and with more notorious individuals, such as...

Confronting Captivity

Britain and the United States and Their POWs in Nazi Germany

by Arieh J. Kochavi
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

How was it possible that almost all of the nearly 300,000 British and American troops who fell into German hands during World War II survived captivity in German POW camps and returned home almost as soon as the war ended? In Confronting Captivity, Arieh J. Kochavi offers a behind-the-scenes look...

Moral Capital

Foundations of British Abolitionism

by Christopher Leslie Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment...

Secret Wars

One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6

by Gordon Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010

Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6. These agencies rank as two of the oldest...

The First World War, 1914-1918; Personal Experiences Of Lieut.-Col. C. À Court Repington Vol. II [Illustrated Edition]

by Lieut.-Col. Charles à Court Repington C.M.G.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos A fascinating history of the First World War seen through the eyes of a highly respected and connected War Correspondent. Lieut.-Col. Charles à Court Repington was a career soldier in the...

British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945

Essays in Honour of Trevor O. Lloyd

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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto for some thirty years beginning in the 1960s. With Lloyd best known for his two histories of the Empire...

The Last Great War

British Society and the First World War

by Adrian Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters,...

Back in Blighty

The British at Home in World War One

by Gerard DeGroot
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound. In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the...

British History For Dummies

by Seán Lang
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011

This book is a riotous, irreverent account of the people and events that have shaped Britain. Always getting those kings and queens confused? Never sure what happened when? Then you need this book. Inside you'll find rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings, executions, invasions, high treason, global...

British Fascism

A Discourse-Historical Analysis

by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Fascism is inherently duplicitous, claiming one thing whilst being committed to something else. In examining this dishonesty, it is essential to distinguish between the surface arguments in fascist discourse and the underlying ideological commitments. Analyzing contemporary fascism is particularly...

The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism

by Jonathan Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding...

Narrating Friendship and the British Novel, 1760-1830

by Katrin Berndt
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a theme in its own right. In her study of how friendship gives direction and shape to new ideas and novel strategies of plot, character formation, and style...

History Of The Siege Of Delhi [Illustrated Edition]

by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny] The Indian Mutiny, or Sepoy Revolt, flared up in many areas around the British controlled Raj in 1857. Government offices were sacked and many Europeans were put to...

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