British category: 24621 books
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A vigorous and authoritative history of last major battle fought between Scottish and English forces, ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire.
The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major...
by Lieut.-Col. Joshua Duke
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880 is a firsthand account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, Joshua Duke, was a British officer in the Bengal Medical Service, attached to “our native army in India.” The war began in Nov. 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of...
Decolonisation
The British Experience since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been one of the central features of post-war international history. At the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe and yet by the mid-1960s most of...
Imperial Medicine
Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British...
Communal Violence in the British Empire
Disturbing the Pax
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Joint winner of the North American Conference on British Studies 2017 Stansky Book Prize for the best book on British Studies since 1800
Communal Violence in the British Empire focuses on how Britons interpreted, policed, and sometimes fostered violence between different ethnic and religious...
by William Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Plays: A Man of Honour, Lady Frederick, The Explorer, The Circle, Caesar's Wife, East of Suez” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. William Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) was a British playwright,...
British Nuclear Culture
Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The advent of the atomic bomb, the social and cultural impact of nuclear science, and the history of the British nuclear state after 1945 is a complex and contested story. British Nuclear Culture is an important survey that offers a new interpretation of the nuclear century by tracing the tensions...
Imagined Homelands
British Poetry in the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada—often disparaged...
British Emigration to British North America
The First Hundred Years (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
In 1928 Miss Cowan published in the series "University of Toronto Studies, History and Economics" her first work on population movements: British Emigration to British North America, 1783-1837. This study has remained a standard reference on its subject and for some time has been available...
by Alexander Grammatikos
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece. Whereas, traditionally,...
Black Salt
Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merchantmen below deck; as cooks, stewards and stokers....
Liberty's Exiles
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
The Road to Dunkirk
The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
“A detailed and fascinating account” of a little known WWII showdown in Belgium between the British Expeditionary Force and the German army (Barnsley Chronicle).
This is an important reassessment of a critical period in the British Expeditionary Force’s fight against the German armies invading...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
*Includes pictures of George III and other important people in his life.*Explains George III's role and policies during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Era.*Discusses George III's mixed legacy and whether criticisms of it are fair.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table...