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by Geoff M Plumb
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
After the Second War, Britains railways were rundown and worn out, requiring massive investment and modernisation. The Big Four railway companies were nationalised from 1948, and the newly formed British Railways embarked on a programme of building new Standard steam locomotives to replace older types....
Replenishing the Earth:The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising...
by N. Khan
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
An examination of the collaboration between Egyptian and Indian nationalists against the British Empire, this book argues that the basis for Third World or Non-Aligned Movement was formed long before the Cold War.
by W. Baring Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
1899—40,000 Boer farmers declare war on the British Empire, defeat the most experienced regular army of the day, and make it a capital offence to shoot a British general.
It was the last of the Gentlemen’s Wars and the first of the modern wars. But for the blood-stained lesions Learned...
by Natalie Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, course: Writing the City: Representations of London, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1997, Zadie Smith, a young talented graduate...
The Roadhouse Comes to Britain
Drinking, Driving and Dancing, 1925-1955
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term 'roadhouse' was used in varied ways in the 1930s, from small roadside tearooms to enormous establishments on the outskirts of major cities. These roadhouses...
Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience
Britain and India in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants and even the monarch George V, as well as Indian nationalists, interacted with the media, primarily British and American, and with what consequences.
Six Moments of Crisis
Inside British Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in the world for decades to come - and in some...
Contemporary Britain
A Survey With Texts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Contemporary Britain is the latest book from the bestselling author of British Civilization and American Civilization. It is a wide-ranging collection of sources concerning every important aspect of life in Britain today, from national identity to moral panics and offers an accurate snapshot of life...
Britannia and the Bear
The Anglo-Russian Intelligence Wars, 1917-1929
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Decades before the Berlin Wall went up, a Cold War had already begun raging. But for Bolshevik Russia, Great Britain - not America - was the enemy. Now, for the first time, Victor Madeira tells a story that has been hidden away for nearly a century. Drawing on over sixty Russian, British and French...
Ramparts of Empire
British Imperialism and India's Afghan Frontier, 1918-1948
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.
by Alan Castle
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The year of 1968 was a pivotal year in a period of great change and, with the march of so-called "progress" that included man being a matter of months away from walking on the moon, the time was up for steam. The first week of August was to see the closure of the final three depots - effectively...
Map Of A Nation: A Biography Of The Ordnance Survey
A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map – the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and...
Read All About It!
A History of the British Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions.
Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers...