The Growth of the British Empire
Author: Philip Henry Kerr Marquis of Lothian
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 248
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Author: Philip Henry Kerr Marquis of Lothian
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Alexander Williamson
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Bertha Synge
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Published: 1908
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Darwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-02-12
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1620400391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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.
Author: Ernest Alfred Benians
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1940
Total Pages: 730
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Howard Robinson
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 542
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobinson wrote this book to introduce American students to an important part of history that wasn't taught extensively at schools and colleges in the United States. The author discusses the growth of Great Britain, with particular emphasis on recent years, as progress had been quite rapid in the 100 years prior to his book's publication. Newfoundland appears as a topic in both chapters four and twenty-three, as both a British colony and neighbor to the Dominion of Canada. In chapter four, Robinson explains how the importance of the fishery to Britain lead to the colonization of the island and the resulting problems with the French. Chapter twenty-three includes a further description of Newfoundland's fishery, her government, and the possibility of joining Confederation.
Author: Philip Henry Kerr Marquis of Lothian
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Henry Kerr Marquis of Lothian
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 219
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen W. Sears
Publisher: New Word City
Published: 2014-09-10
Total Pages: 1336
ISBN-13: 1612308090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1815, the British controlled the seas. Before the end of the nineteenth century, they ruled Australia, India, New Zealand, half of Africa, half of North America, and islands all around the globe. Theirs was the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Here is the story of how the English acquired their vast domain; how they ruled, maintained, and exploited it; and how, within decades, they presided over its dissolution. Here are Britain's triumphs and also her stinging defeats, her heroes and her scoundrels. It is a full and fascinating chronicle of the growth of the British Empire and its people and of the impact that empire had on the rest of the world.
Author: Philip Henry Kerr Lothian (Marquis Of)
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780353613553
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