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Liquidation of Empire: the Decline of the British Empire.(Book Review)
; ...of Empire: The Decline of the British Empire, by Roy Douglas. Houndsmills...preside over the liquidation of the British Empire, and Conservatives had cast themselves...single event marked the end of the British Empire. Douglass notes that World War...
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The importance of being posh Niall Ferguson is won over by the claim that the real distinction in the British Empire was not race but rank
; Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine Allen Lane...from the British Isles to the British Empire. His theme is the class-consciousness...Bombay in the heyday of the British Empire. Cannadine's title may puzzle...
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The British Seaborne Empire.(Book review)
; ...between seapower and the rise of the British Empire. His purpose, put succinctly...of the sea in the making of the British Empire with reference to economic, cultural...their attention from the First British Empire, one that was intimately linked...
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The emerald in the crown.(Ireland and the British Empire: The Oxford History of the British Empire, 5 vols.)(Book Review)
; KEVIN KENNY, EDITOR Ireland and the British Empire Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series Oxford University Press...the recent five-volume Oxford History of the British Empire. In his foreword Nicholas Canny points out...
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Imperial amnesia: the British empire. (international perspectives on the demise of the British empire and the nation's current role in world affairs)
; ...used to having the decline of the British empire pointed out to him in forceful...themselves as the heirs to the British empire. As a result, they often seem...sensitivities in former outposts of the British empire. The most striking recent example...
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Interview: Niall Ferguson discusses the similarities between the former British Empire and America in its current state
; ...similarities between the former British Empire and America in its current state...Almost everyone accepts that the British Empire shaped the modern world. British...In other words, he credits the British Empire for pushing the world into the...
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Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization.(Book review)
; ...United States and the decolonization of the British empire (1977), The British empire in the Middle East 1945-1951: Arab nationalism...Most significantly, the Oxford History of the British Empire (1998-99), to which over 120 historians contributed...
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A brutal enterprise from first to last ; A brilliant new history of the British Empire shows that the seeds of disaster were sown from the very start
; The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon ONE...sprinkled through this history of the British Empire, tells us of a futuristic short...soared. London is no more, the British Empire is dead, and the sun has risen...
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British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter.(Book review)
; ...enterprise involving China and the British Empire. Based on extensive archival and...the information network of the British empire, the cultural encounter of the...China and elsewhere within the British empire. British naturalists throughout...
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Empire: The British Imperial Experience From 1765 to the Present.
; ...thing , you have to admit the British empire did not do such terrible damage...as the suggestion that the British empire was not greater than the sum...trade between Britain and its empire exceed 35% of all British trade. So much for imperialism...
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