British category: 24621 books
Titan
The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European...
Rockets, Bombs and Bayonets
A Concise History of the Royal Marines and other British and Canadian Forces in Defence of Canada 1812-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In December of 1812, after having their peace offer rebuffed, the British cabinet decided to take aggressive measures against the United States. The Admiralty sent Rear Admiral George Cockburn RN with a squadron of ships of the line and frigates to shut down the American privateers, protect...
Burdens of History
British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic...
Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe
Foreign Policy and Security Challenges, 1919-1936
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Danubian Europe presented constant and serious security risks for European peace and stability and, for that reason, contrary to conventional wisdom, it commanded the attention of British diplomacy with a view to appeasing local conflicts. Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe examines the manner in...
by Major Thomas A. Crowson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
For over four years during World War I, Lieutenant Colonel (Later Major General) Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of the German Schutztruppe led the men of the British East African Expeditionary Force on a chase over some of the most inhospitable terrain imaginable. As the commander of German...
by Juliet Shields
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
What did it mean to be British, and more specifically to feel British, in the century following the parliamentary union of Scotland and England? Juliet Shields departs from recent accounts of the Romantic emergence of nationalism by recovering the terms in which eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...
by John Richetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature is a lively exploration of one of the most diverse and innovative periods in literary history. Capturing the richness and excitement of the era, this book provides extensive coverage of major authors, poets, dramatists, and journalists of the period,...
by Timothy Michael
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British...
British Culture of the Post-War
An Introduction to Literature and Society 1945-1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
From Angus Wilson to Pat Barker and Salman Rushdie, British Culture of the Post-War is an ideal starting point for those studying cultural developments in Britain of recent years. Chapters on individual people and art forms give a clear and concise overview of the progression of different genres....
Mothers of the Nation
Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2000
British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental...
The Imperial Security State
British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British...
by Major-Gen. Sir Thomas Seaton K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
At the tender age of 16 Thomas Seaton took up a cadestship in the East India Company in 1822, and waved farewell to his native London for a career of soldiering in India. He was to spend most of his life in the Indian sub-continent and its border regions, at the sharp end of the expansion of the British...
by Major Augustus Le Messurier
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
A remarkable diary from the wars of the British Empire of the historic march on Kandahar in 1879.
The Second Anglo-Afghan war 1878-1880 was intended to establish peace and British hegemony to the North-West frontiers of the Indian Empire. After the brutal and disastrous effort of the British...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2001
The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural studies to the history of science, academics are engaged in a series of debates about empire which move far beyond traditional preoccupations with metropolitan...