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The Battle of New Orleans
Including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Spanish Which Led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The Battle of New Orleans
Including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians, and the Spanish Which Led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815
This edition features illustrations.
Excerpt from Introduction
...The ink was scarcely dry upon...
Democracy and Political Culture
Studies in Modern British History
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as a whole, and which together...
The Zinoviev Letter
The Conspiracy that Never Dies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
This is the story of one of the most enduring conspiracy theories in British politics, an intrigue that still has resonance nearly a century after it was written: the Zinoviev Letter of 1924. Almost certainly a forgery, no original has ever been traced, and even if genuine it was probably Soviet fake...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This collection of essays collects the leading scholars on British colonial thought in Southeast Asia to consider the question: what was the relationship between liberalism and the British Empire in Southeast Asia? The empire builders in Southeast Asia: Lord Minto, William Farquhar, John Leyden, Thomas...
by Jonathan Rose
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their...
Battle for Beijing, 1858–1860
Franco-British Conflict in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The ‘battle for Beijing’ is universally – and quite wrongly – believed to have been about opium. This book argues that it was about freedom to trade, Britain’s demands for diplomatic equality, and French demands for religious freedom in China. Both countries agreed that their armies, which...
Strange Vernaculars
How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain
While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied—from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period—less well-known...
Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel
From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia,†? the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of...
by Colin Matthew
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
The complete Short Oxford History of The British Isles (series editor: Professor Paul Langford) will cover the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics,...
Roast
a very British cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Roast restaurant is a champion of British cooking and Britain's farmers and producers. Located in the foodie mecca of Borough Market, this award-winning, unique restaurant celebrates both heritage and innovation on its seasonal British menu. Now you can recreate Roast's famous food and drink in your...
Merely for Money?
Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were strictly...
by Joanna Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing, Race, and the British Countryside, Joanna Johnson shows how writers like Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Grace Nichols, Andrea Levy, and Caryl Phillips...
by Lawrence James
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
An illuminating and often surprising new biography of Churchill, focusing on his contradictory relationship with the British Empire.
One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes pictures of Charles and important people, places, and events in his life.*Includes a comprehensive look at his marriage to Diana and his role in her funeral.*Includes a Table of ContentsI think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake...