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Pages: 161
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From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from ti
The Character of the British Empire
Language: en
Pages: 34
Authors: Ramsay Muir
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-17 - Publisher: Good Press

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The Character of the British Empire by Ramsay Muir explains how Britain was able to continue having complete control over its colonies all around the world. Exc
Ornamentalism
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: David Cannadine
Categories: History
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Ornamentalism is a vividly evocative account of a vanished era, a major reassessment of Britain and its imperial past, and a trenchant and disturbing analysis o
Strangers Within the Realm
Language: en
Pages: 480
Authors: Bernard Bailyn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press

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A collection of essays dealing with British expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. An introduction surveys British imperial history, providing a context for
Corporate Character
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Pages: 238
Authors: Eddy Kent
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-24 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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The vastness of Britain’s nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encourage