Rediscovering The British Empire

Author : Phillip Alfred Buckner
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 155238179X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the British World written by Phillip Alfred Buckner and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis have included nineteen essays from expert scholars in the field, which cover a broad range of cultural, social, and intellectual topics in British imperial history from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The essays focus on the history of Britain and the Empire, with considerable emphasis on the self-governing dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. They attempt to show the centrality of the Empire in the history of the nations created by the British diaspora overseas, while at the same time calling into question the extent of the existence of a "British World." The goal is not to wax nostalgic, but rather to re-examine the complex phenomenon of this far-reaching empire and to shed light on the ways in which it has shaped our world. With contributions by: James Belich Frank Bongiorno Bettina Bradbury Patrick H. Brennan Phillip Buckner Elizabeth Elbourne R. Douglas Francis Jeffrey Grey Catherine Hall John Lambert Douglas Lorimer David Lowe Stuart Macintyre Adele Perry Paul Pickering Satadru Sen R. Scott Sheffield Paul Ward Stuart Ward Wendy Webster

Author : Barry J. Ward
Publisher : Krieger Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781575241241
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the British Empire written by Barry J. Ward and published by Krieger Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns itself with three perspectives: first, the imperialistic viewpoint that the British transformed the world into their own image; second, the revisionist approach that the British collaborated and interacted with those they colonized; and third, post-colonial criticism.

Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139788469
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the British Empire written by Ronald Hyam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-20 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the British Empire draws on a lifetime's research and reflection on the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field. Essays cover six key themes: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of empire, religion and ethics, imperial bureaucracy, the contribution of political leaders, the significance of sexuality, and the shaping of imperial historiography. A major new introductory chapter draws together the wider framework of Dr Hyam's studies and several new chapters focus on lesser known figures. Other chapters are revised versions of earlier papers, reflecting some of the debates and controversies raised by the author's work, including the issue of sexual exploitation, the European intrusion into Africa, including the African response to missionaries, trusteeship, and Winston Churchill's imperial attitudes. Combining traditional archival research with newer forms of cultural exploration, this is an unusually wide-ranging approach to key aspects of empire.

Author : Professor Jeremy Black
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472459660
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire written by Professor Jeremy Black and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British Empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire, but also a perspective from which to consider the issues of its strengths and weaknesses, and rights and wrongs. The book addresses global decline, decolonisation, and the complex nature of post-colonialism and different imperial activity in modern and contemporary history.

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 146684213X
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the British Empire written by Lawrence James and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain's geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island often at odds with her European neighbors. In The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James has written a comprehensive, perceptive, and insightful history of the British Empire. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present day, this critically acclaimed book combines detailed scholarship with readable popular history. “This is a stylish, intelligent and readable book.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Denis Judd
Publisher : London : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire written by Denis Judd and published by London : HarperCollins. This book was released on 1996 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Empire is central to Britain's national mythology and sense of its place in the world, and essential to an understanding of its changing role as we approach the end of the millennium. Denis Judd's fine, magisterial history does full justice to a complex and epic theme."--Jacket.

Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Empire written by Bill Nasson and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Empire from an entirely fresh perspective. More than Shakespeare, more than the invention of the railway, it was Empire which made Britain into Great Britain. By the early 20th century, that Empire covered around a quarter of the earth's surface, and embraced more than a quarter of its inhabitants.

Author : S. E. Stockwell
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire written by S. E. Stockwell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited work adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the 18th to the 20th century. Each contributor offers a personal assessment of the topic at hand, and examines key interpretive debates among historians.

Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351375393
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th and 17th centuries through to the present day. As well as the themes of history and literature (politics and war, genre and intertextuality), the book considers issues of national identity, gender and sexuality, race and empire, and more. The complex fascination with witchcraft through the ages is investigated, and the importance of witches in the real world and in fiction is analysed. The book begins with a chapter dedicated to the stories and records of witchcraft in the Renaissance and up until the English Civil War, such as the North Berwick witches and the work of the ‘Witch Finder Generall’ Matthew Hopkins. The significance of these accounts in shaping future literature is then presented through the examination of extracts from key texts, such as Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Middleton’s The Witch, among others. In the second half of the book, the focus shifts to a consideration of the Romantic rediscovery of Renaissance witchcraft in the eighteenth century, and its further reinvention and continued presence throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including the establishment of witchcraft studies as a subject in its own right, the impact of the First World War and end of the British Empire on witchcraft fiction, the legacy of the North Berwick, Hopkins and Salem witch trials, and the position of witchcraft in culture, including filmic and televisual culture, today. Equipped with an extensive list of primary and secondary sources, Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is essential reading for all students of witchcraft in modern British and American culture and early modern history and literature.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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