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Britain's Retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905-1980
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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… |
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Barmy British Empire
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Terry Deary,Martin Brown |
A humorous account of life and social conditions in colonies throughout the British Empire. |
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Empire's children
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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… |
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The name of war
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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 … |
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Trade, Plunder and Settlement
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Kenneth R. Andrews |
Explains the course of English overseas expansion and the beginning of the overseas empire. |
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Crucible of War
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Fred Anderson |
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, G… |
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