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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Ashley Jackson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-30 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from ti
The Character of the British Empire
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Ramsay Muir
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-17 - Publisher: Good Press

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The Character of the British Empire by Ramsay Muir explains how Britain was able to continue having complete control over its colonies all around the world. Exc
Strangers Within the Realm
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Bernard Bailyn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press

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A collection of essays dealing with British expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. An introduction surveys British imperial history, providing a context for
Ornamentalism
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: David Cannadine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis o
The British Empire through buildings
Language: en
Pages: 327
Authors: John M. MacKenzie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-09 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial