Télécharger le livre :  Policing ‘Bengali Terrorism' in India and the World
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This book examines the development of imperial intelligence and policing directed against revolutionaries in the Indian province of Bengal from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Second World War. Colonial anxieties about the 'Bengali...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-08
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  The British in Argentina
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Drawing on largely unexplored nineteenth- and twentieth-century sources, this book offers an in-depth study of Britain’s presence in Argentina. Its subjects include the nineteenth-century rise of British trade, merchants and explorers, of investment and railways, and of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-29
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Great Britain and the Unifying of Italy
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This book explores the interests of British leaders, diplomats and consuls in the unifying of Italy. It is the first study to provide a comprehensive narrative of British policy on Italian affairs between the formation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 and its...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-21
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Nigeria and the Death of Liberal England
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This book shows how a stormy parliamentary debate over the sale of German properties in Nigeria on 8 November 1916 began the process which brought down Asquith and made Lloyd George prime minister. The colonial secretary, Bonar Law, who was also leader of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-18
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Constructing National Identity in Canadian and Australian Classrooms
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This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia. Drawing on sources such as textbooks and curricula, the book argues...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-06
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  The War Against the Pirates
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Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-22
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Britain, Europe and Civil Nuclear Energy, 1945–62
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This book examines the role played by civil nuclear energy in Britain’s relationship with Europe between the end of the Second World War and London’s first application to join the European Communities. Tracing the development of the British nuclear programme as it...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-03-15
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Britain's Cold War in Cyprus and Hong Kong
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Linking two defining narratives of the twentieth century, Sutton’s comparative study of Hong Kong and Cyprus – where two of the empire’s most effective communist parties operated – examines how British colonial policy-makers took to cultural and ideological...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-07
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  The Glubb Reports: Glubb Pasha and Britain's Empire Project in the Middle East 1920-1956
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The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the first Arab-Israeli...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-26
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  New Delhi: The Last Imperial City
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Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-12
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Hunting Africa
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This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-12
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Ramparts of Empire
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This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-10
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Pax Britannica
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This book by world-expert Barry Gough examines the period of Pax Britannica , in the century before World War I. Following events of those 100 years, the book follows how the British failed to maintain their global hegemony of sea power in the face of continental...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-28
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Sport and the British World, 1900-1930
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This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-06-12
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperial Culture in Antipodean Cities, 1880-1939
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Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this book explores how far imperial culture penetrated antipodean city institutions. It argues that far from imperial saturation, the city 'Down Under' was remarkably untouched by the Empire.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-11
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2
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This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-19
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1
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This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-19
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Cinema and Society in the British Empire, 1895-1940
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By 1940 going to the movies was the most popular form of public leisure in Britain's empire. This book explores the social and cultural impact of the movies in colonial societies in the early cinema age.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-26
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  Britain's Imperial Muse
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Britain's Imperial Muse explores the classics' contribution to British imperialism and to the experience of empire in India through the long 19th century. It reveals the classics role as a foundational source for positive conceptions of empire and a rhetorical arsenal...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-16
Collection : Britain and the World
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Télécharger le livre :  British Policy in the Persian Gulf, 1961-1968
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An in-depth analysis of Great Britain's policy in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region during the last years of British imperialism in the area, covering the period from the independence of Kuwait to the decision of the Wilson Government to withdraw from the Gulf.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-25
Collection : Britain and the World
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