To Rule Britannia

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785904566
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Danny Dorling and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Daphne du Maurier and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daphne du Maurier
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316253006
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Daphne du Maurier and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States. "A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting."-Chicago Tribune

Author : John Nikas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988273382
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by John Nikas and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101212519
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruled Britannia written by Harry Turtledove and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-11-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew—and in fear of the Inquisition’s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land. William Shakespeare has no interest in politics. His passion is writing for the theatre, where his words bring laughter and tears to a populace afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the Spanish crown. But now Shakespeare is given an opportunity to pen his greatest work—a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors—and change the course of history.

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723677
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Deirdre David and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.

Author : Bruce Gilley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684512174
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Imperialist written by Bruce Gilley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--

Author : Matthew P. Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317979761
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games written by Matthew P. Llewellyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : Robert Opie
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Robert Opie and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alec Marsh
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 1786157195
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Alec Marsh and published by Headline. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a light-hearted historical adventure series set during the mid-twentieth century. 'An immensely readable treat!' Alexander McCall Smith Ernest Drabble, a Cambridge historian and mountaineer, travels to rural Devon to inspect the decapitated head of Oliver Cromwell - a macabre artefact owned by Dr Wilkinson. Drabble only tells one person of his plans - Harris, an old school friend and press reporter. On the train to Devon, Drabble narrowly avoids being murdered, only to reach his destination and find Dr Wilkinson has been killed. Gripped in Wilkinson's hand is a telegram from Winston Churchill instructing him to bring the head of Oliver Cromwell to London. Drabble has unwittingly become embroiled in a pro-Nazi conspiracy headed by a high-status Conservative member of the British government. And so, Drabble teams up with Wilkinson's secretary, Kate Honeyand, to find the head and rescue Harris who is being tortured for information...