British category: 24621 books
Competing Visions of Empire
Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections...
The Heroic Record of the British Navy
A Short History of the Naval War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
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In the years immediately preceding the Great War, already so hard to reconstruct, it was not uncommonly suggested that the British seafaring instinct had begun to decline. In our professional navy most thinkers had confidence, as in a splendid machine ably...
Remembering the Troubles
Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history—that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the past" remains near the top of the political...
British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion
Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland. In...
by M.B. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
The Growth of the British Empire is a succinct history of Britain's rise to power.
by Diana Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Any time of day is the right time for something sweet or for a biscuit or cookie. In this recipe book for small cakes you'll find 114 recipes - a selection of British favourites for delicious cupcakes, biscuits, scones, waffles, homemade bread, icings, fillings and homemade sweets. The recipes are really quick and easy to prepare, using every day ingredients.
Queens of Crime: American and British female detective novels over the course of time
A Study with Specific Reference to American and British Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,6, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: The present study is concerned with the analysis of female detective novels coming from the USA and Great Britain....
by Quintin Colville
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen – a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East...
A Green and Pagan Land
Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Algernon Blackwood, Aleister Crowley, Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind...
Till the Boys Come Home
How British Theatre Fought the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Ever since the signing of the Armistice in 1918, theatre has played an important part in reflecting the experience of the ‘war to end all wars’. But on the Home Front, what role did those involved with British theatre play during those tumultuous four years and three months?Till the Boys Come...
The Meaning of Anarchism
From Loyalism to Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Captain Jack White (1879-1946). Any study of anarchism anywhere in Ireland would be amiss if it did not include mention of the first organiser of the Irish Citizen Army: republican, communist and then anarchist, Captain Jack White. Born at Whitehall, near Broughshane in County Antrim Jack White spent...
by David S. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and...
by Emily Cuming
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James...
Calendar of Crime
365 True Cases from British History
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
From Jack the Ripper to long-forgotten cases, a true crime for ever day of the yearMay 19, 1536: Anne Boleyn, charged with high treason, is beheaded at the Tower of London August 31, 1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, is found murdered in Buck's Row December 18, 1914:...