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Author : Henry Drummond-Wolff
Publisher : London : Hutchinson [1949?]
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120479220
Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : John Darwin,Frederick Madden
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313273170
The sixth volume in Greenwood's ongoing series, this book is the first of three fine volumes to cover the twentieth century and the last stages in decolonization of the British Empire. It is concerned with the original five Dominions, the apparently inappropriate association of the Irish Free State with those Dominions, and the similarly anomalous status of India, the first non-European dependency and the first republic to secure full membership in the Commonwealth and to make it a multiracial association. The book documents the evolution of, changes in, and rise and fall of that Commonwealth association; the shifts in the balance of powers within the Canadian and Australian federations; the fulfillment of union in South Africa and Ireland; the coherence emerging in New Zealand; the bankruptcy in Newfoundland; and the separation of India and Pakistan. Two forthcoming volumes will deal with the colonies, protectorates, and mandates in the twentieth century.
Author : David Churchill Somervell,Heather Joan Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : IND:30000084050586
Author : Vickerman Henzell Rutherford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Democracy
ISBN : IOWA:31858048015303
Author : British Information Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : UIUC:30112063401530
Author : Saul Dubow,Richard Drayton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Alan Palmer,Alan Warwick Palmer
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0719556503
Contains 650 entries in alpha. order on the Brit. Imperial past and Commonwealth present. A ref. companion to the political, cultural, religious, mil. and econ. events that have shaped the transformation of a Victorian Empire into a world community of 51 sovereign states and 26 dependencies, still linked in free assoc. It looks back to the beginning of Brit. maritime expansion, but concentrates chiefly on the last 2 cent. As well as providing outline histories of individual states, it offers guidance to the many Commonwealth org. which link them. Includes biographical sketches; entries on cinema and theater, sports, natural disasters, railways, hill stations, and hotels. 7 maps.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : OCLC:984131185
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 : James Alexander Williamson
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : WISC:89097406615
Author : Sandra Robinson,Alastair Niven
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015043808404
Author : Paul Knaplund
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3727576
Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : Aldershot, England : Gregg Revivals
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN : UOM:39015034879828
In this volume of 22 essays by a range of leading academics, a substantial attempt has been made to examine the body of published historical literature relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth. The main purpose of the essays is threefold: to provide, individually and collectively, a critical assessment and survey of the literature available up to 1966; to explain how this literature has developed; and to act as a guide to subsequent research. This wide ranging and detailed survey continues to remain of central importance to students, academics and librarians alike, and benefits from a new introduction by Robin Winks.