British Empire – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

John Withington
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day

Bursting with images from across time, a sparkling chronicle of rockets, pinwheels, and more. This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their mysterious beginnings to the dazzling …

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Filippo Maria Sposini
The Certification of Insanity

Mental Health in Historical Perspective

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and disseminati…

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Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885¿1960

Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History

This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening existing historiographical perspectives, it explores imp…

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James Stafford
The Case of Ireland

"In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, Ireland became the object of a vigorous debate concerning the promise and perils of commerce in an era of global war and revolution. This debate concerne…

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Nandini Das
Courting India

A profound and ground-breaking new history of one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century. 'A triumph of writing and …

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Rebeca Araya Acosta
Compiling Texts in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print

This book argues that the act of compiling texts together into collections in the eighteenth century is politically and epistemologically significant. Focusing on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment i…

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From Far East to Asia Pacific

ISSN -Band 4

The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they v…

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Lacey Sparks
Women and the Rise of Nutrition Science in Interwar Britain and British Africa

Britain and the World

In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa. While histories of science, medicine and British…

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Reconstruction

Commendation, the Colvin Prize 2023 (Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) Reconstruction explores the impact of the First World War on the built environment - examining the immediate and…

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Shane Lynn
Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War

How the South African War transformed nationalist politics across Ireland's global diaspora In 1899, the British Empire embarked on a deeply controversial war against two small Boer Republics in South Af…

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Monika Barget,
Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation and the Transformation of Political Culture

Cultures of Early Modern Europ

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process o…

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Jeff Forret
The Price They Paid

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America--ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves "A spectacular achievement …

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Stella Meng Wang
Space and Everyday Lives of Children in Hong Kong

Global Histories of Education

Deploying a spatial approach towards children s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperia…

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Anton Wagner
The Spiritualist Prime Minister

The Spiritualist Prime Minister by historian Dr. Anton Wagner presents former Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's quest for spirit communication within the historical and cultural contex…

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David Snape
The Chameleon and the Fly

The AmaNdebele War was part of the expansion of the British Empire in Africa in the late Nineteenth Century and part of Cecil Rhodes' plan to expand two Empires: his own through the British South Africa C…

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Monika Barget,
Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process o…

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Leslie Rogne Schumacher
The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain

This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political leaders, journalists and the general public responded to …

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Greg Brooking
From Empire to Revolution

From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright's life as a means to better…

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John Gilbert McCurdy
Vicious and Immoral

"On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a man. Newburgh's enemies cited his flamboyant appearan…

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Paul Theroux
Burma Sahib

"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the Briti…

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