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by Major William S. R. Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
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 Letters and memoirs of the ferocious leader of cavalry Major William Hodson, whose exploits, deeds and misdeeds during the Indian Mutiny have remained the stuff...
by Adrian Johns
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
“A superb account of the rise of modern broadcasting.” —Financial Times
When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley’s country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England....
British Type 3 Diesel Locomotives
Classes 33, 35, 37 and upgraded 31
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The Type 3 Diesel Locomotive album comprises over 200, mainly unpublished, full sized colour photographs of four classes of British engines, developed in the earlier years of the Modernisation Plan.
The Type 3 included four classes of locomotive of medium power output, which undertook a wide...
Post-Holocaust Politics
Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Between 1945 and 1948, more than a quarter of a million Jews fled countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and began filling hastily erected displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria. As one of the victorious Allies, Britain had to help find a solution for the vast majority of these refugees...
Victorians on Screen
The Nineteenth Century on British Television, 1994-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity.
by Major Michael J. Lackman
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Military historical case studies provide insight for military planners. Military planners cannot afford to ignore history when planning in today’s complex environment. This thesis analyzes military doctrinal changes and adaptation during Britain’s Boer War and the French counterinsurgency war...
by Judith Millidge
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In 1809, thanksgiving ceremonies and feasts across Britain ushered George III into his fiftieth year as king. This was the first British celebration of a royal jubilee and set the tone for the five that have followed since: processions, fireworks, construction of monuments, the striking of special...
by Glen O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Thisis the first book to cover the British people’s late twentieth century engagement with water in all its domestic, national and international forms, and from bathing and household chores to controversies about maritime pollution. The British Isles, a relatively wet and rainy archipelago, cannot...
The Iconography of Independence
'Freedoms at Midnight'
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book explores the phenomenon of Independence Days. These rituals had complex meanings both in the territories concerned and in Britain as the imperial metropole, where they were extensively reported in the press. The text is concerned with the political management, associated rhetoric and iconography...
by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state. This is the history of its army, examining the many conflicts they fought,...
The Battle of Plassey 1757
The Victory That Won an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East. Yet, as Britain’s influence increased through its official...
Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front
The Experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I. For many men from all over the British Empire, this was the experience of the Great War. Based on soldiers' accounts, this book reveals the hardships and complexity of British Empire soldiers' lives in this oft-forgotten but important campaign.
The Fatal Land
War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble...
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian...