The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409077961

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The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire by Piers Brendon Pdf

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more swiftly. Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by Imperial America. It left a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. Full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire is popular history at its scholarly best.

Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347421882

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8 by Edward Gibbon Pdf

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Author : Robert Briffault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : LCCN:41018646

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Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Robert Briffault Pdf

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 394 pages
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Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812976397

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Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret MacMillan examines the hidden lives of the women who supported their husbands’ conquests–and in turn supported the Raj, often behind the scenes and out of the history books. Enduring heartbreaking separations from their families, these women had no choice but to adapt to their strange new home, where they were treated with incredible deference by the natives but found little that was familiar. The women of the Raj learned to cope with the harsh Indian climate and ward off endemic diseases; they were forced to make their own entertainment–through games, balls, and theatrics–and quickly learned to abide by the deeply ingrained Anglo-Indian love of hierarchy. Weaving interviews, letters, and memoirs with a stunning selection of illustrations, MacMillan presents a vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers, and wives of the men at the center of a daring imperialist experiment–and reveals India in all its richness and vitality. “A marvellous book . . . [Women of the Raj] successfully [re-creates] a vanished world that continues to hold a fascination long after the sun has set on the British empire.” –The Globe and Mail “MacMillan has that essential quality of the historian, a narrative gift.” –The Daily Telegraph “MacMillan is a superb writer who can bring history to life.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Well researched and thoroughly enjoyable.” –Evening Standard

Author : Robert Briffault
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258162792

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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Robert Briffault Pdf

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307428370

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The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon Pdf

The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global depression that displaced millions, paralyzed the liberal democracies, gave rise to totalitarian regimes, and, ultimately, led to the Second World War. In this sweeping history, Piers Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life. From Stalinist pogroms to New Deal programs, Brendon re-creates the full scope of a slow international descent towards war. Offering perfect sketches of the players, riveting descriptions of major events and crises, and telling details from everyday life, he offers both a grand, rousing narrative and an intimate portrait of an era that make sense out of the fascinating, complicated, and profoundly influential years of the 1930s.

Author : W. David McIntyre
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0230227813

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The Britannic Vision by W. David McIntyre Pdf

Shows the role of historians in making 'Dominion' status, which combined autonomy with unity and provided the peaceful route by which Canada, Australia and New Zealand gained their independence within the British Commmonwealth of Nations, while South Africa, the Irish Free State and India, also Dominions, chose to become republics.

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307388414

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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon Pdf

A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Random House UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1844130819

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Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon Pdf

In his account of four figures (Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell), each of them, in their different ways, "monsters," Piers Brendon writes wittily and succinctly--and illuminates an age. Their eminence was global, not just because Britannia ruled the waves, but because they made a lasting international impact: imprinting an indelible media presence on contemporary life; filling the powder-keg which is still the Middle East; leading the emancipation of women; and preparing the younger generation for a world shaped by the ebbing of empire.--From publisher description.

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 031216985X

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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James Pdf

Covers the history of the British Empire from 1600 to the present day, and its transition from ruler of half the world to its current status of isolated, economically fragile island.

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0807898740

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Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire by Trevor Burnard Pdf

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846146718

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Unfinished Empire by John Darwin Pdf

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139482141

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The Empire Project by John Darwin Pdf

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.

Author : Elliott Evans Mills
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0343646625

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The Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Elliott Evans Mills Pdf

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Author : Edward Gibbon
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1011259672

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire; by Edward Gibbon Pdf

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