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Battle Stories — Britain Overseas 2-Book Bundle
Goose Green 1982 / Isandlwana 1879
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Two pivotal moments in British military history, separated by more than a century, yet both with decisive impacts on Britain’s national identity and power overseas. At Isandlwana, South Africa, as at Goose Green in the Falkland Islands, British commanders underestimated local forces and found themselves...
British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan
A Selected Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The British Army's campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899 were among the most dramatic and hard-fought in British military history. In 1882, the British sent an expeditionary force to Egypt to quell the Arabic Revolt and secure British control of the Suez Canal, its lifeline to India....
Russia and the British Left
From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The study of native `Marxisms' in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'. In this book, David Burke looks at the activities of the Russian political émigré community in Britain, and in particular the role of one Russian-Jewish political family: the Rothsteins....
by Hon. Sir John William Fortescue
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar...
by Wm Roger Louis
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China...
by Fred McGlade
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
At the beginning of the Second World War the Nazi hierarchy at an early stage, had fully recognized the importance of controlling the depiction of military conflict in order to ensure the continued morale of their combat troops by providing a bridge between the soldiers and their families. Promoting...
by David Glowsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Leipzig (Institute for Anglistics), course: Novels of the Indian Diaspora, 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: British society has undergone...
by Benjamin Mountford
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China Coast and the broader implications for British...
E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India'
The British Raj in India and Its Impact on the Friendship between Aziz and Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A), Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary (USA: East Tennessee State University, Johnson City - College of English), course: E.M. Forster, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English,...
Britain and Arab Unity
A Documentary History from the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
British attitudes towards Arab unity have frequently been a source of controversy in the Middle East. From the Treaty of Versailles to the end of World War II, and the withdrawal of Mandates from the region, British involvement in Arab affairs has been well-documented from the British perspective....
The Second World War and the 'Other British Isles'
Memory and Heritage in the Isle of Man, Orkney and the Channel Islands
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can recall that...
by Alexander McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the...
The Evolution of the British Welfare State
A History of Social Policy since the Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
An established introductory textbook that provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late eighteenth century. Derek Fraser’s authoritative account is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first Welfare...
All Canada in the Hands of the British
General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In 1760, General Jeffery Amherst led the British campaign that captured Montreal and began the end of French colonial rule in North America. All Canada in the Hands of the British is a detailed account of Amherst’s successful military strategy and soldiers’ experiences on both sides.
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