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Irish Imperial Networks
Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
This is an innovative study of the role of Ireland and the Irish in the British Empire which examines the intellectual, cultural and political interconnections between nineteenth-century British imperial, Irish and Indian history. Barry Crosbie argues that Ireland was a crucial sub-imperial centre...
Picturing India
People, Places, and the World of the East India Company
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travelers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company, reflect the increasingly important role played by the Company in Indian life. And they mirror significant...
Great British Cooking
A Wellkept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
This book is a revelation to Americans who have never tasted real Cornish Pasties, Scotch Woodcock (a splendid version of scrambled eggs) or Brown Bread Ice Cream. From the sumptuous breakfasts that made England famous to the steamed puddings, trifles, meringues and syllabubs that are still renowned,...
Outskirts of Empire
Studies in British Power Projection
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britain’s interests in the Near East and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Essays address themes in British power projection in a geographically wide area encompassing parts of the...
by Rivka Swenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration...
Empire of Sentiment
The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British imperialism and Victorian humanitarianism and inserted it into popular culture. Sacrifice and death; Superman like heroism; the devotion of Africans; the cruelty of...
Friendly Enemies
Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc’s most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist...
Nanny Knows Best
The History of the British Nanny
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
From the popular Mary Poppins to the controversial Supernanny, the history of the British Nanny is revealed through fascinating personal storiesNot quite part of the family and definitely an employee; idealized or demonized, the nanny has had a difficult role in family life over the past 200 years....
by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-18. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-20 whose effects continue to be felt today.
by Max Beer
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Max Beer's 'A History of British Socialism' is the standard work on the subject, tracing the idea of socialism from its classical and medieval roots down to the late 1920s when the new Labour Party was preparing to take power. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the growth and...
British Amphibious Assault Ships
From Suez to the Falklands and the present day
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2019
Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963–66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003).
In major operations such as Suez and the...
The Warm South
How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today
Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who...
The Hanoverian Succession
Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the world with a growing colonial Empire,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book is the first collection on the British author Rose Macaulay (1881-1958). The essays establish connections in her work between modernism and the middlebrow, show Macaulay’s attentiveness to reformulating contemporary depictions of gender in her fiction, and explore how her writing transcended...