Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves 1526146207, 9781526146205

Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World 9780520975088

A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history o

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Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world 9781526103017

Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain

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Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature 9781487517649

Chocolate traces representations of chocolate in Spanish literature and historical documents, providing a fascinating an

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Imperial obituary : the mysterious death of the British empire

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Egypt: British colony, imperial capital 9781526105967

The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century,

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An Imperial War and the British Working Class 9781134529780

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Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands 9780824862947

This insightful analysis of British imperialism in the south Pacific explores the impulses behind British calls for the

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The barbarians speak: how the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe 9780691089782, 9780691058719, 9781400843466

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Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures 9781978837256

Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our

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British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn’t 9780755621781, 9780857726155

The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a ‘great’ enterprise,

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