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| Title: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. Author: Lawrence James Price: £12.99 |
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Spanning four centuries and six continents, James; magnificent survey examines the imperial experience and it's legacy with tremendous verve. Informed, comprehensive and perceptive, it is the essential summary of the era.
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| Title: Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World Author: Niall Ferguson Price: £8.99 |
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Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story of its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.
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| Title: The British Empire Author: Michael Lynch Price: £8.99 |
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Read about the origins and development of the Empire to its demise and legacy; the good that it achieved and the bad it inflicted in this accessible introduction to the history of the British Empire. A book that will keep you hooked from beginning to end.
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| Title: Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction Author: Robert J.C Young Price: £6.99 |
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Young examines the political, social and cultural after-effects of decolonisation by presenting situations, experiences and testimony, situating the debate in a wide cultural context. This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism.
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| Title: Empire: A Very Short Introduction Author: Stephen Howe Price: £6.99 |
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This book achieves what others on this subject have failed to do: it looks at what the 'idea of empire' has meant throughout history, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of such labels as 'empire' and 'colonial', and offering a compelling look at the profound changes in the modern world.
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| Title: The Atlantic Sound Author: Caryl Phillips Price: £7.99 |
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In The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
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| Title: The Honourable Company: A history of the English East India Company Author: John Keay Price: £9.99 |
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Reconstructing this epic of expansionist endeavour from the journals and records of the Company's employees: the first experimental voyages to the East; the earliest, often disastrous, settlements; the later, often inglorious, wars; and the often venal administrations. From Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong, the political geography of today is undeniably the creation of the East India Company.
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| Title: Message in a Bottle: The POW who buried his life story in a jar Author: Quintus Browne Price: £10.95 |
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Quintus' regiment was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and he was forced to work among those who constructed the bridge over the River Kwai. It was during this time that he wrote these memoirs on scraps of paper with stolen pencil stubs, and buried each chapter in a graveyard he tended.
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| Title: Oxford Readers: Slavery Author: Engerman, Drescher and Paquette Price: £21.99 |
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Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, this Oxford Reader explores the origins, history, and realities of slavery form a global perspective. It covers the historical justifications for slavery and the slave trade, as well as slave resistance and abolitionism. Key insights are provided in the writings of slaves, slaveowners, abolitionists, economists, lawyers and historians, as well as in biblical and philosophical discussions.
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| Title: The History if the Northern Rhodesia Police Author: Tim Wright Price: £18.00 |
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The first comprehensive account of this unique colonial force, from its roots in the last decade of the nineteenth century and suppression of the Slave Trade, to the birth of the Republic of Zambia in the shadow of the Lumpa rebellion of 1964.
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| Title: Life in the Wilds of Central India Author: J.D St. Joseph Price: £18.00 |
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J.D. St Joseph belonged to one of the domiciled British families of Victorian India. He went to school in Naini Tal and undertook as his profession the conservation and management of the forests of Central India from 1891 until the outbreak of the First World War.
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| Title: Was it Only Yesterday?: The Last Generation of Nigeria's 'Turawa' Author: Trevor Clark Price: p/b £15.00 h/b £25.00 |
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Known in the Hausa tongue as 'Turawa', this book contains the memories of some of Europeans, mostly British who served in Northern Nigeria from the forties to the sixties. They find the current political and academic opinions of their past way and purpose hard to understand. Drawing on accounts from over 100 contributors, Was it Only Yesterday? helps to redress this.
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| Title: The British Empire Throughout the World 1905 Map Author: N/A Price: £9.99 |
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A detailed colour map if the greatest Empire the world has ever seen with numerous annotations showing trade throughout the world and the shipping routes which brought all manner of goods to the mother country. Additional maps show the development of the Empire in the preceding three centuries and a gazetteer lists British possessions and population figures.
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| Title: Nyasaland Days 1902 - 1919 Author: J.B. Davey Price: £12.99 |
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A marvellous book containing the memoirs of Dr John Bernard Davey's very interesting career in Africa. First as an ordinary medical officer in Nyasaland, then finally serving as Principal Medical Officer for Tanganyika Territory.
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