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by Nadja Grebe
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Imagining the Nation: From the British Empire to Multicultural Britain, language: English,...
by Sharon Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The British Soldier and his Libraries, c. 1822-1901 considers the history of the libraries that the East India Company and Regular Army respectively established for soldiers during the nineteenth century. Drawing upon a wide range of material, including archival sources, official reports, and soldiers’...
Builders of Empire
Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica...
British Music Hall
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
'The music hall ...had no place for reticence; it was downright, it shouted, it made noise, it enjoyed itself and made the people enjoy themselves as well.' W.J. MACQUEEN POPE
Music Hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment. With stars such as Marie Lloyd, Harry Lauder and Dan...
British Steam - Military Connections
Great Western Railway, Southern Railway, British Railways & War Department Steam Locomotives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
In Great Britain there existed a practice of naming steam locomotives. The names chosen covered many and varied subjects, however a large number of those represented direct links with military personnel, regiments, squadrons, naval vessels, aircraft, battles and associated historic events. For example,...
by Klaus Knorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1944
The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable...
The Empire Project
The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering...
by Hairudin Harun
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
This book is a historical account of the British colonial medical establishment, health policy and medical science research in the Malay Peninsula (currently West Malaysia). The account here, in three volumes, is based on a study of primary and secondary historical colonial sources found in the U.K....
A State in Denial:
British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and intelligence services with loyalist paramilitaries...
by James Fox
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing...
Imperial Britain
The Empire in British Politics, c. 1880-1932
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This new study considers the impact of the empire upon modern British political culture. The economic and cultural legacy of empire have received a great deal of attention, but historians have neglected the effects of empire upon the domestic British political scene. Dr Thompson explores economic,...
The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
Women in the British Army
War and the Gentle Sex, 1907–1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
In this fascinating, timely and engaging study, Lucy Noakes examines women's role in the army and female military organizations during the First and Second World Wars, during peacetime, in the interwar era and in the post-war period.
Providing a unique examination of women’s struggle for...
Forging Romantic China
Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760–1840
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
The first major cultural study to focus exclusively on this decisive period in modern British-Chinese relations. Based on extensive archival investigations, Peter J. Kitson shows how British knowledge of China was constructed from the writings and translations of a diverse range of missionaries, diplomats,...