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Author : Vickerman Henzell Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Democracy
ISBN : IOWA:31858048015303
Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349248308
From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
Author : Philip Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190935009
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.
Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Fédération impériale
ISBN : UOM:39015053606763
Author : Paul Knaplund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Commonwealth (Organization)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080778520
Author : Sandra Robinson,Alastair Niven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004335967
In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth, edited by Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven, a range of contemporary writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity.
Author : Walter Phelps Hall,Robert Greenhalgh Albion,Jennie Barnes Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015003627869
Author : Goldwin 1823-1910 Smith
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361639172
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Author : Saul Dubow,Richard Drayton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030417888
This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth. It features the work of younger scholars, as well as established academics, and highlights themes such as law and sovereignty, republicanism and the monarchy, French engagement with the Commonwealth, the anti-apartheid struggle, race and immigration, memory and commemoration, and banking. The volume focusses less on the Commonwealth as an institution than on the relevance and meaning of the Commonwealth to its member countries and peoples. By adopting oblique, de-centred, approaches to Commonwealth history, unusual or overlooked connections are brought to the fore while old problems are looked at from fresh vantage points – be this turning points like the relationship between ‘old’ and `new’ Commonwealth members from 1949, or the distinctive roles of major figures like Jawaharlal Nehru or Jan Smuts. The volume thereby aims to refresh interest in Commonwealth history as a field of comparative international history.
Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : OCLC:1077827803
Author : David Churchill Somervell,Heather Joan Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : IND:30000084050586
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015043808404
Author : Jason Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1987915003
The 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver changed both the city and world sport forever. The Games will always be remembered for the "Miracle Mile," the much-anticipated showdown between the first two men to break the four-minute barrier, England's Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy. But as the press focused the world's attention on Vancouver, and Bannister outpaced Landy in the stretch, fate found an even more dramatic story that seared itself into the memories of all who saw it. England's Jim Peters, the world-record holder in the marathon, entered Empire Stadium at the end of a brutal twenty-six-mile run, collapsing repeatedly before a medic stopped him two hundred yards from the finish line. These two stories brought the Games to a stirring conclusion on its final day - Saturday, August 7, 1954 - but there were many other extraordinary moments throughout the events. A group of novice UBC rowers pulled off the biggest upset in Games history on the Fraser Valley's Vedder Canal. Australia's Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, the fastest woman in history, blasted down the track one final time to remain undefeated in international competition, an unprecedented accomplishment before and since. Emmanuel Ifeajuna, a little-known high jumper from Nigeria, surprised the world when he won Africa's first-ever international gold medal. He later masterminded a bloody coup that plunged his nation into devastating civil war. Every single day offered up unbelievable tales of glory and grief. As one 1954 billboard boldly proclaimed, the Games were "a week you'll remember a lifetime "
Author : Phillip Buckner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774850667
Sir John Seeley once wrote that the British Empire was acquired in "a fit of absence of mind." Whatever the truth of this comment, it is certainly arguable that the Empire was dismantled in such a fit. This collection deals with a neglected subject in post-Confederation Canadian history -- the implications to Canada and Canadians of British decolonization and the end of empire. Canada and the End of Empire looks at Canadian diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom and the United States, the Suez crisis, the changing economic relationship with Great Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, the role of educational and cultural institutions in maintaining the British connection, the royal tour of 1959, the decision to adopt a new flag in 1964, the efforts to find a formula for repatriating the constitution, the Canadianization of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the attitude of First Nations to the changed nature of the Anglo-Canadian relationship. Historians in Commonwealth countries tend to view the end of British rule from a nationalist perspective. Canada and the End of Empire challenges this view and demonstrates the centrality of imperial history in Canadian historiography. An important addition to the growing canon of empire studies and imperial history, this book will be of interest to historians of the Commonwealth, and to scholars and students interested in the relationship between colonialism and nationalism.
Author : Garth Fowden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691015453
In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.