An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism 0198890958, 9780198890959

An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism 0198890958, 9780198890959

During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magneti

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The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism 9780719052279

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Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts 1409400581, 9781409400585

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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The Age of Imperialism

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Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927 9780807830888

They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful procons

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Welsh missionaries and British imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in north-east India 9781526118752

This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christia

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Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism 9780674273016

Challenging traditional views of arms dealers as agents of their own countries, Grant asserts that these firms pursued t

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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire 9781501714672

Some of the topics discussed in the book, such as the use of violence against civilians, the desire to uphold human righ

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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science 9780300159769

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a f

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Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education 9780231549288

Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western techniques were adopted an

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