The British Empire In 100 Facts

Author : Jem Duducu
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445643995
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire in 100 Facts written by Jem Duducu and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering major historical topics through the history behind the facts. The story of the British Empire told in bitesize chunks

Author : Steele PHILIP
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786176110
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Facts British History Pocket Edition written by Steele PHILIP and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocket Edition 100 Facts British History is bursting with 100 awesome facts, great images and activities to help children learn everything they need to know about the history of Great Britain. Kids learn more easily with bitesized information Photographs and artworks aid children who learn through visual prompts Activities allow children to put what they have learned into practice. 100 Facts British History includes key topics about the British Empire's history in easily-digestible, numbered facts. Information is accompanied by amazing illustrations and photographs to give context to history for kids. A great-value introduction to British history books for kids aged 7+ years.

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620400391
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Empire written by John Darwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. Darwin unfurls the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways-from the military to the cultural-in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being.

Author : Jem Duducu
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445649713
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romans in 100 Facts written by Jem Duducu and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jem Duducu condenses the colossal story of the Romans into 100 accessible facts in this fun introduction to the Roman Empire.

Author : Trevor Lloyd
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855512
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire written by Trevor Lloyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two hundred years, Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. This is the story of its rise and fall

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917423
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire written by Peter Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670919608
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire written by Jeremy Paxman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. 'Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated . . . In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery' Piers Brendon, Sunday Times 'Paxman is a magnificent historian, and Empire may be remembered as his finest work' Independent on Sunday Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.

Author : Mike Rendell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445647818
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Georgians in 100 Facts written by Mike Rendell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the history behind the facts

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789892598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Facts British History written by Philip Steele and published by . This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastically successful 100 Facts series takes a tour of British history, from Stone Age times through to the modern age. Discover masses of information about Celts and Romans, knights and castles, kings and queens, and battles and wars. Covering a wide range of topics from life in the Middle Ages to the might of the Victorian Empire, exactly 100 numbered facts will challenge children, acting as an incentive as they make their way through the book. Packed with beautiful artwork, and featuring fun panels containing activities, quizzes and hilarious cartoons, 100 Facts is the perfect introduction to this fascinating topic.

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781703084450
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avoiding The British Empire written by Robert Morris and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-27 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire was a lot more important than most recognize. Its propagandists, 100 years ago and today, like to pretend that it was just one among many competing empires. This book shows that in fact, it was the first of only two countries that has managed to run the entire world. The United States is the second. The British Empire died in the flames of the two world wars its mistakes created. This book tries to identify the lessons we need to keep the US Empire from ending the same way.