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Author : Giselher Wirsing
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Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Families Rule the British Empire written by Giselher Wirsing and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giselher Wirsing
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The 100 Families that Rule the Empire written by Giselher Wirsing and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670919608
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Empire written by Jeremy Paxman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. 'Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated . . . In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery' Piers Brendon, Sunday Times 'Paxman is a magnificent historian, and Empire may be remembered as his finest work' Independent on Sunday Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.
Author : Hazel V. Carby
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788735110
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Imperial Intimacies written by Hazel V. Carby and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958512
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Empire written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all 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. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Constitutional Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. H. Nolan
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Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, from the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 written by E. H. Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Henry Nolan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The illustrated history of the British empire in India and the East ... to the suppression of the Sepoy mutiny in 1859 written by Edward Henry Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cyrus Stern
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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Our Kindred written by Cyrus Stern and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Family Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerry Docherty
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780577494
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Hidden History written by Gerry Docherty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite... 'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their words . . . their arguments are powerful' -- Britain at War 'Simply astonishing' -- ***** Reader review 'Very illuminating' -- ***** Reader review 'You simply MUST read this book' -- ***** Reader review 'This is a page-turner' -- ***** Reader review *********************************************************************************** Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For ten years, they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through Belgrade and St Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever since. The official version is fatally flawed, warped by the volume of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view. Hidden History poses a tantalising challenge. The authors ask only that you examine the evidence they lay before you . . .
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Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 中国馆藏满铁资料联合目录: 西文俄文部分索引 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradford W. Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110854805
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Indigenous law and the state written by Bradford W. Morse and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Indigenous law and the state".
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellows' Family Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
