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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
by P. F. Clarke  Publisher Comments A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower—published on the sixtieth anniversary of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine. “I have not become the...
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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
by Nicholas B Dirks Publisher Comments Many have told of the East India Companyandrsquo;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...
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Tribes of Britain
by David Miles Publisher Comments Who are the English, Scots, Welsh, and Irish? New scientific techniques can be used to explore this complex genetic jigsaw—ancient Britons and Saxons, Celts and Romans, Vikings and Normans, and more recent migrations. Drawing on the latest...
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:...
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Vintage)
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the...
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Evil Empire: 101 Ways That Britain Ruined the World
by Steven A Grasse Synopsis 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...
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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...
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Companion to Tudor Britain (Blackwell Companions to British History)
by Robert Tittler Synopsis "A Companion to Tudor Britain" provides an authoritative overview of historical debates about this period, focusing on the whole British Isles. An authoritative overview of scholarly debates about Tudor Britain. Focuses on the whole British Isles...
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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...
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Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India
by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their...
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
by William Dalrymple Publisher Comments On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish...
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East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia
by Christopher Patten Review "This is a book we need to read . . . "Even its full title, East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia, fails to do justice to its scope. It is, in fact, no less than the defense of a political and economic philosophy to guide public policy as...
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Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution
by Jonathan Scott Publisher Comments The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as a whole, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the...
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Great Mutiny: India, 1857
by Christopher Hibbert Synopsis On a brutally hot day in May, 1857, the famous Sepoy Rebellion erupted, a mutiny by native troops that swept across northern India, weakened the British Raj, and set up future confrontations between India and Britain....
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The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century (New Studies in Economic and Social History)
by Robert Woods Synopsis This book provides a clear interpretation of the causes of demographic change in Britain in the nineteenth century. It combines an examination of migration, marriage patterns, fertility and mortality with a guide to the sources of population data...
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Raj the Making & Unmaking of British Ind
by Lawrence James Synopsis The story of how the British made themselves masters of India in under a hundred years, ruled it for a further hundred and then departed leaving the independent states of India and Pakistan behind. James argues that the arrangement was always extremely...
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East and west :China, power, and the future of Asia
by Christopher Patten Publisher Comments The twenty-first century is destined to become the Pacific century as Hong Kong's melding of East and West spreads throughout Asia. As Hong Kong's last governor Christopher Patten is a uniquely qualified tour guide to Asia's ongoing metamorphosis. No...
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History Literature and Music in Scotland
by R Andrwe Mcdonald Synopsis Eight studies by scholars in the three fields explore such topics as early Christianity in Norse Orkney and the legend of Magnus Erlendsson, national identity in Blind Harry's Wallace , carnival at court and Dunbar in the underworld, and medieval musical...
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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...
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St. Martin's True Crime Library #1: The Empire of the Bretaignes, 1175-1688: The Foundations of a Colonial System of Government: Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the Bri
by Frederick Madden Publisher Comments This first volume of a projected four-volume set details the impressive record of eight hundred years of English (later British) imperial rule. The editors have assembled the earliest documentary evidence necessary for a fundamental understanding of the...
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