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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya by Caroline Elkins Publisher Comments “An extraordinary act of historical recovery.”—The New Yorker As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Rise & Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James Publisher Comments A history of British expansions overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. 16pp b/w illus.... (read more) Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Soldier Sahibs: The Daring Adventurers Who Tamed India's Northwest Frontier by Charles Allen Publisher Comments A colourful piece of narrative history which describes the military achievements of a band of men who fought on the North West frontier to defend British interests in India in the mid-nineteenth century. Allen weaves their individual stories into a true... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Evil Empire: 101 Ways That Britain Ruined the World by Steven A Grasse Publisher Comments They invented slums. They invented child labor. They put Saddam Hussein in power. They burned Joan of Arc at the stake, and they enslaved the globe to get their tea fix. We're talking about England, of course, and the terrible evils they've set loose on... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Plain Tales From the Raj by Charles Allen Synopsis The memoirs of some 70 British men and women whose lives followed the course of Anglo-India through its last 50 years. Reissued as the imperial century closes, the insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Scandal of Empire : India and the Creation of Imperial Britain (06 Edition) by Nicholas B. Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty by Arthur H Cash Publisher Comments A highly entertaining biography of the incredible John Wilkes, champion of liberty and irrepressible libertine. "It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and political... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918 by James Barr Publisher Comments T. E. Lawrence's classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom made the Arab revolt a legend and helped turn him into the mythical Lawrence of Arabia. Setting the Desert on Fire is both a masterly account of the intrigue behind the revolt and its startling... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Peter Clarke Publisher Comments A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpowerpublished on the sixtieth anniversary of Britains withdrawal from Palestine. “I have not become the Kings First... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 by Byron Farwell Publisher Comments 'Now that the Raj has gone with the winds of change, Byron Farwell's masterly picture if doubly welcome, ...whether emphasizing the jewels in its military crown, the Jam Sahibs in its cricket matches, the mutinies, massacres and finally, Independence... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Black Synopsis Just how did the changing relationship between Britain and America in the18th Century affect both world powers?... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley A. Wolpert Publisher Comments Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a shameful flight by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sport & the Making of Britain by Derek Birley Publisher Comments This lively and stimulating book looks at some of the myths and realities surrounding Britain's legendary enthusiasm for sport; and aims to chronicle how sporting traditions were shaped and how they, in turn, contributed to the shaping of British social... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour Publisher Comments “[A] lavishly enjoyable book.” —Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Peter Clarke Publisher Comments A sweeping, vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britain's empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies--and won. Yet less than three years after... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank Mclynn Publisher Comments If not for the events of 1759, the entire history of the world would have been different. Called the "Year of Victories," 1759 was the fourth year of the Seven Years, or the French-and-Indian War and defeat of the French paved the way for the global... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Queen's Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls (P.S.) by Nick Hazlewood Publisher Comments In the 17th and 18th centuries, England became the greatest slave trading nation in the world. This painstakingly researched biography of Jack Hawkyns, the queen's personal slave trader, explores his life and chronicles the rise of the English slave... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning by Kathleen Burk Publisher Comments Our close bond with Great Britain seems inevitable, given our shared language and heritage. But as distinguished historian Kathleen Burk shows in this groundbreaking history, recently published to acclaim in the United Kingdom, the close international... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Diamonds, Gold, and War: the British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa (08 Edition) by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world’s richest deposits of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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