British list 22

The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy

Resources, Logistics and the State, 1755–1815

by Roger Morriss
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010

British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed to extend British power...

The Secret War Against Napoleon: Britain's Assassination Plot on the French Emperor

by Tim Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019

The riveting and previously unknown story of the British government’s determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible. Between two assassination attempts—in 1800 and 1804—on Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope...

With Cavalry In 1915, The British Trooper In The Trench Line, Through Second Battle Of Ypres [Illustrated Edition]

by Frederic Abernethy Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

Frederic Coleman returns to the front with the British Army in 1915 after his adventures in 1914, as recounted in his first reminiscences “From Mons to Ypres with General French”. Once again attached to the British cavalry, grand movements had ceased and the positional war of attrition, artillery...

Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue

Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment

by Mark Garrett Longaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections...

Stirring Incidents in the Life of a British Soldier

An Autobiography [Illustrated Edition]

by Colour-Sergeant Thomas Faughnan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

[Illustrated with over two hundred and sixty maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Crimean War] Thomas Faughnan served in the 6th Royal Regiment, now the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, during a most bloody period of British History. Born in Derry in...

Fighting EOKA

The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959

by David French
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015

Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished sources, including files from the recently-released Foreign and Commonwealth Office 'migrated archive', Fighting EOKA is the first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the 1950s. It shows how between...

Dislocating the Orient

British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

by Daniel Foliard
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017

While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being, exploring...

Images of India in British Fiction: Anglo-India vs. the Metropolis

by Sebastian Horstmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, it will be considered in how far fiction by Rudyard Kipling and other writers supported the institution...

Spain in British Romanticism

1800-1840

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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of Spain by nineteenth-century poets such as Lord...

In which ways national history is debated? - Analysis of 'Midnight's Children' and 'Passage to India'

Analysis of 'Midnight's Children' and 'Passage to India'

by Martin Lieb
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 64 % , University of Sussex (University of Sussex - Humanities), course: Postcolonial Perspectives, 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In my essay, I will talk about...

Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire"

by Matthew Whittle
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The end of the British Empire was one...

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980

by Myles Osborne, Susan Kingsley Kent
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Africa:...

1970s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary. Chapters...

The Fifth Army In March 1918 [Illustrated Edition]

by Walter Shaw Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Illustrated with 19 maps] On March 21st, 1918, Ludendorff launched the massive offensive that had been feared by the Allies for some time. The target for their attack was the Fifth Army commanded by General Sir Hubert Gough; weak in numbers and even weaker in the lack of entrenchments and fortifications...