The British Empire Teach Yourself

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Teach Yourself
ISBN 13 : 1444160397
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire: Teach Yourself written by Michael Lynch and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teach yourself history series offers a refreshing alternative to dense academic historical books, its content being extensive yet written in an accessible and engaging style. All titles in this series are informative and compelling. Assuming no prior knowledge and full of anecdotes and fascinating details, these books will keep the reader hooked from beginning to end. At its greatest extent the British Empire covered one quarter of the globe and contained one sixth of the world's population. This book considers the fascinating and unique history of the British Empire from its origins and development to its demise and legacy. Michael Lynch considers the countries, motives and individuals involved with engaging objectivity. He pays particular attention to India, the 'Jewel in the Crown', and the Scramble for Africa before shifting the focus to the people of the Empire. He offers an original and fascinating insight into the lives of the adventurers, missionaries, settlers and administrators, as well as the colonised themselves.

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780071461481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Empire written by Michael Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach Yourself History Each title in the history category of Teach Yourself makes complex events accessible when you're seeking an alternative to dry, academic texts. Incorporating gripping personal stories, our Teach Yourself History Books transform history from a record of facts and dates to a dynamic, fascinating experience. Teach Yourself the British Empire explores how, over a period of 300 years, Great Britain expanded its influence through colonizations and conquests to become one of history's greatest powers.

Author : Sathnam Sanghera
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593316681
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empireland written by Sathnam Sanghera and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism. "Empireland is brilliantly written, deeply researched and massively important. It’ll stay in your head for years.” —John Oliver, Emmy Award-winning host of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" With a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Booker Prize-winner Marlon James A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism. Empire—whether British or otherwise—informs nearly everything we do. From common thought to our daily routines; from the foundations of social safety nets to the realities of racism; and from the distrust of public intellectuals to the exceptionalism that permeates immigration debates, the Brexit campaign and the global reckonings with controversial memorials, Empireland shows how the pernicious legacy of Western imperialism undergirds our everyday lives, yet remains shockingly obscured from view. In accessible, witty prose, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Sathnam Sanghera traces this legacy back to its source, exposing how—in both profound and innocuous ways—imperial domination has shaped the United Kingdom we know today. Sanghera connects the historical dots across continents and seas to show how the shadows of a colonial past still linger over modern-day Britain and how the world, in turn, was shaped by Britain’s looming hand. The implications, of course, extend to Britain’s most notorious former colony turned imperial power: the United States of America, which prides itself for its maverick soul and yet seems to have inherited all the ambition, brutality and exceptional thinking of its parent. With a foreword by Booker Prize–winner Marlon James, Empireland is a revelatory and lucid work of political history that offers a sobering appraisal of the past so we may move toward a more just future.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Aleph Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9789383064656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Era of Darkness written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Aleph Book Company. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India

Author : Robert Peal
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008195380
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Britain - The British Empire written by Robert Peal and published by Collins. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready-made high quality KS3 history lessons on the British Empire - topic booklet perfect for a half term's work. Give every student access to high quality KS3 History textbook content with this topic booklet on the making of the British Empire. Chapter 1: Seven Years' WarChapter 2: The East India CompanyChapter 3: How the British Empire was RuledChapter 4: The Transatlantic Slave TradeChapter 5: The Abolition of the Slave Trade - Fits into the school timetable with ease with 5 high quality lessons, perfect for a half term - Ignites an interest in history through extraordinary people, amazing facts, and a distinctly engaging narrative - Helps all students to think critically about the past by focusing on the knowledge they need and then checking their understanding - Aids pupil memory with a 'knowledge organiser' at the back with key dates, vocabulary and significant people. - Delivers excellent lessons and saves time planning with the Teacher Guide available free on Collins.co.uk, containing teaching ideas, suggested sources, assessment, answers, essay titles and extended writing examples

Author : H. W. Crocker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596982837
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the British Empire written by H. W. Crocker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire, ”the biggest empire in history”once ruled a quarter of the globe. It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, educate and entertain. Strap on your pith helmet for a rollicking ride through some of history's most colorful events. Bet your teacher never told you: The Founding Fathers didn't rebel against British imperialism; they looked forward to the transfer of the great seat of Empire to America. The original Norman English invasion of Ireland was approved by the pope. Sir Charles Napier, commander in chief of the British Army in India, abolished the Hindu custom of widow-burning. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer's hearts and minds counter- insurgency strategy was instrumental in defeating the Communists in Malaya. The breakup of the British Empire led Winston Churchill to conclude that he had achieved nothing in his life.

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312169855
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/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 Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of the British Empire from 1600 to the present day, and its transition from ruler of half the world to its current status of isolated, economically fragile island.

Author : Hazel V. Carby
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735110
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Intimacies written by Hazel V. Carby and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.

Author : Alan Farmer
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 1510423168
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Access to History The British Empire, c1857-1967 for AQA written by Alan Farmer and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: Summer 2017 (A-level) Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History is the most popular, trusted and wide-ranging series for A-level History students. This title: - Supports the content and assessment requirements of the 2015 A-level History specifications - Contains authoritative and engaging content - Includes thought-provoking key debates that examine the opposing views and approaches of historians - Provides exam-style questions and guidance for each relevant specification to help students understand how to apply what they have learnt This title is suitable for a variety of courses including: - AQA: 1J The British Empire, c1857-1967

Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787240009895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raleigh and the British Empire written by David B. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: