Download or read book History of England and the British Commonwealth written by Laurence Marcellus Larson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Empire and Commonwealth written by Martin Kitchen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-08-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Short History of the British Commonwealth written by Ramsay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Britannic Vision written by W. David McIntyre and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Short History of the British Commonwealth written by Ramsay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century England written by Robert Macey Rayner and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of England and the British Empire written by Arthur Donald Innes and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unfinished Empire written by John Darwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain's imperium-a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. Darwin unfurls the British Empire's beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways-from the military to the cultural-in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being.
Download or read book State Commons written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century England written by Robert Macey Rayner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of the British Commonwealth written by Ramsay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century England written by Robert Macey Rayner and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of England and the British Empire 1802 1914 written by Arthur Donald Innes and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada and the British Empire written by Phillip Alfred Buckner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada and the British Empire traces the evolution of Canada, placing it within the wider context of British imperial history. Beginning with a broad chronological narrative, the volume surveys the country's history from the foundation of the first British bases in Canada in the early seventeenth century, until the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982. Historians approach the subject thematically, analysing subjects such as British migration to Canada, the role played by gender in the construction of imperial identities, and the economic relationship between Canada and Britain. Other important chapters examine the history of Newfoundland, the history and legacy of imperial law, and the attitudes of French Canadians and Canada's aboriginal peoples to the imperial relationship. The overall focus of the book is on emphasising the part that Canada played in the British Empire, and on understanding the Canadian response towards imperialism. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, it is essential reading for anyone interested either in the history of Canada or in the history of the British Empire.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century England a political and social history of the British commonwealth 1815 1914 with 9 maps and 8 folding date charts written by Robert Macey Rayner and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Persistence of Empire written by Eliga H. Gould and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Download or read book The Commonwealth of Nations written by Lionel Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
