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The Burning of the Valleys
Daring Raids from Canada Against the New York Frontier in the Fall of 1780
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1997
In the fifth year of the War of Independence, while the Americans focused on the British thrust against the Carolinas, the Canadian Department waged a decisive campaign against the northern frontier of New York. Their primary target was the Mohawk River region, known to be the "grainbowl"...
The British Army 1939–45 (3)
The Far East
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and...
by Dave Musgrove, Doctor of Landscape Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
In 100, carefully selected places, BBC History Magazine editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe...
Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England
Australia's British Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
In Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the...
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by General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson GCB GCVO
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War]
At a regimental gathering following Sir George Higginson’s funeral one officer remarked to another that no-one could remember the regiment without Sir George...
Passport to Peking
A Very British Mission to Mao's China
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand. In the second half of 1954, scores of European...
by Robin Bunce, Laura Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to know.
My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: British Political History, 1945-90: Consensus and Conflict closely combines the content of this Edexcel AS unit with revision activities and...
Empire of Guns
The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable...
by Ashley Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle to the glass and steel of Sir Norman Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank skyscraper, these buildings capture the essence of the imperial experience, painting an intimate...
English Writing and India, 1600-1920
Colonizing Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period.
Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian...
Selling Empire
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly...
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2
Experiencing Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Geographies of an Imperial Power
The British World, 1688–1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration...
Britain's Maritime Empire
Southern Africa, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, 1763–1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
A fascinating new study in which John McAleer explores the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope and its critical role in the establishment, consolidation and maintenance of the British Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Situated at the centre of a maritime chain...