David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the ...
Global Food History, p. 1. This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers uncovers a hidden world of transcultural ...
The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...
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When London’s Iconic Crystal Palace Burned to the Ground in a Devastating FireThree years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...
The author of the Horrible Histories series has admitted he hates the British Empire “with a passion”. Terry Deary, who has ...
This course will bring you back down to earth. It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its ...
The enthralling conversation between the two historians ended with Ohlmeyer’s opinion that there is a need to come to terms ...
The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...
Terry Deary, the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, has launched a scathing attack on Britain's imperial past, ...
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