Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 0226184870, 9780226184869, 9780226184876

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 9780226184869

In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern s

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Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India 9780812205053

Flora's Empire brings new light to the complex history of British imperialism in India and its post-Independence le

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Empire and Art: British India 9781526122957, 9781526122940

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India and the British Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) [Reprint ed.] 9780198794615

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only produci

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Mapping the End of Empire: American and British Strategic Visions in the Postwar World 9780674419438

By 1945 Washington and London envisioned a new era in which the U.S. shouldered global responsibilities while Britain fo

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Mapping India 9781138506428, 9780429318467

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A Cultural History of the British Empire: A Cultural History of the British Empire 9780300268812

A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around t

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Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India 9780812243260, 2011011277

Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected a

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An Irish Empire: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire 0719038731, 9780719038730

Imperial historians have long appreciated the interactive character of the culture and politics of the British Empire wi

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Princely India and the British: Political Development and the Operation of Empire 9780755625772, 9781848858787

In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critic

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