The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature 9780520260993, 2010019955

The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature 9780520260993

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of

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The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature 9780520948150

Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of

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Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1850 0307425169, 9780307425164

In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the liv

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Tudor Empire: The Making of Early Modern Britain and the British Atlantic World, 1485-1603 3030628914, 9783030628918

This book recasts one of the most well-studied and popularly-beloved eras in history: the tumultuous span from the 1485

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The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain 9789048542970

Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationali

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Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707–1918) 9780748630646

Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social his

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The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature 2019036590, 9781421438061, 9781421438078, 9781421438085

An ambitious comparative study of British and Latin American literature produced across a century of economic colonizati

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The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature 1421438062, 9781421438061

Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Boli

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Antiquity and the Meanings of Time: A philosophy of ancient and modern literature 9780755625154, 9781845118150

Society and contemporary culture seem forever fascinated by the topic of time. In modern fiction, Ian McEwan (The Child

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Antiquity and the Meanings of Time: A Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Literature 9781845118150, 9781845118167

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