William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service 1469639513, 9781469639512

Imperial obituary : the mysterious death of the British empire

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Curating empire: Museums and the British imperial experience 9781526118288

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British

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The New A-Z of Empire: A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History 9780755625178, 9781845118716

The British Empire, especially in its late-Victorian heyday, spanned the world and linked a quarter of world's popu

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Entente Imperial: British and French Power in the Age of Empire 9781398102897

Today’s arguments over Britain’s relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history.

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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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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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Who Was William Hickey?: A Crafted Life in Georgian England and Imperial India 1000649881, 9781000649888

This book analyzes an example of life-writing, an autobiography that was written in the early nineteenth century and wil

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Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline 9780822395409

The contributors to this comprehensive anthology critique sociology's disciplinary engagement with colonialism in v

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Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire 9781350986787, 9781786732514

In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation use

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In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony 9781350121164, 9781350123267, 9781350121171

Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplo

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