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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
America or Europe?	Jeremy Black	Why did Britain's position dramatically improve between 1739 and 1763? In this study, the author examines a pivotal period in Britain's rise to power status that culminated in the defeat of France in…	OL14856967W
Zulu warriors	Aaron Trejo	"Engaging images accompany information about Zulu warriors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.	OL16190457W
The Bureaucracy of Beauty	Arindam Dutta	Designing the Present is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Profess…	OL1760509W
The British Empire	William W. Lace	Examines the events leading to expansion of the British Empire and the variety of reasons for its eventual decline in the twentieth century.	OL18154117W
The Fishing Fleet	Anne de Courcy,Anne De Courcy	"The fascinating and entertaining true stories of the young Victorian women on the hunt for husbands among the colonial businessmen and bureaucrats in the Raj"--	OL19708645W
Cities of empire	Tristram Hunt	"An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake. At its peak, the British Empire wa…	OL19987545W
Britain's Retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905-1980	Antony Best	The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain’s ally Japan vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to its influence i…	OL20251592W
Barmy British Empire	Terry Deary,Martin Brown	A humorous account of life and social conditions in colonies throughout the British Empire.	OL20675701W
A few lawless vagabonds	David Bennett	"An account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777-1791), and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history"…	OL22946607W
Empire's children	Anton Gill	'Empire's Children' - a tie-in edition to a six part TV series for Channel 4 - which follows the personal journeys of six British celebrities as they retrace their steps through their multicultural p…	OL24262996W
Barmy British empire	Terry Deary	Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Barmy British Empire, including how a war started when a Brit was sitting on a stool, who wore a necklace made of 50 human skulls and why a British s…	OL24686197W
The name of war	Jill Lepore	Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in …	OL2625554W
Edge of Empire	Maya Jasanoff	Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest – but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of cross-cultur…	OL264991W
The long fuse	Don Cook	"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the time and the manner of yielding what it is impossible to keep," declared Queen Elizabeth II at the American Independence…	OL3521437W
The privileges of independence	John E. Crowley	Because the establishment of the United States required independence from a commercial empire, historians have often identified the American Revolution with liberal political economy and a repudiatio…	OL3904058W
The British Overseas	Charles Carrington	A classic study of the expansion of the British peoples overseas. This volume deals with the early British ventures overseas from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Professor Carrington …	OL4007345W
War under heaven	Gregory Evans Dowd	"The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, …	OL4089208W
Colonialism and development	Michael Ashley Havinden	This is a study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies between 1850 and 1960. These colonies stretched right round the world from the West Indies, through West, C…	OL4312838W
Trade, Plunder and Settlement	Kenneth R. Andrews	Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire.	OL4472170W
A brave vessel	Hobson Woodward	A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacyIn 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for th…	OL9548511W