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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address...
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by Matilda Hannah Ouvry
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]
‘The mutiny as seen by a Lancer’s wife
This account, which briefly covers life in India immediately preceding the Indian Mutiny, was originally titled...
The Game of Our Lives
The English Premier League and the Making of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of contemporary Britain through the lens of soccer. In the last two decades soccer in the United Kingdom has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very center of British popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment...
by Mr Liam Ó Duibhir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened in December 1920, it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British, often on little more than the suspicion...
Yeomen of England
Tales of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry 1794-1966
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Yeomen of England were called to bring their own horses to form England’s first Home Guard when a dictator assembled his army across the Channel in 1794. They went on to become one of the most famous mounted regiments of the British Army. During World War I they served on the frontline in the...
by Karen Farrington, Nick Constable
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people’s hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea. The stories that go with lifeboats and their crews are those of courage, sacrifice, community and our coastline. No matter...
The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016
A Political and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The Reinvention of Britain 1960*–*2016 explores the transformation of contemporary Britain, tracing its evolution from the welfare state of the post-1945 era to social democracy in the 1960s and 1970s and the liberal market society of 1979 onwards. Focusing primarily on political and economic change,...
The Official History of Privatisation, Vol. II
Popular Capitalism, 1987-97
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997.
Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports,...
The Stillbirth of Capital
Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century...
A Cultural History of the British Census
Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.
The Industrial Revolution
The State, Knowledge and Global Trade
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process.
In...
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550–1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities...
Ancient Woodland
History, Industry and Crafts
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Though most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient – and often complex – origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with hotly contested resources: conflicting demands from...
by Charlie Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
For more than 100 years, steam locomotives were the most technologically advanced form of power and transport dominating the railways and were often described as the “heart-beat” of the UK. The earliest railways used horse-power to pull carts along the track, but the age of steam was just beginning...