Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James A. Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion: The modern empire and commonwealth. 4th ed
Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500-1902
Author: William Harrison Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A short history of British expansion. 1. The old colonial empire
Author: James Alexander Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500-1920
Author: William Harrison Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Short History of the Expansion of the British Empire, 1500-1911
Author: William Harrison Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The British Empire, 1558-1995
Author: Trevor Owen Lloyd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Unfinished Empire
Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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.