Author: Edward GriersonPublisher: Collins Publishers San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This Book Is By All Standards One Of The Best One-Volume History Of The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire.
The Imperial Dream
Author: Edward GriersonPublisher: Collins Publishers San Francisco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This Book Is By All Standards One Of The Best One-Volume History Of The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire.
The British Empire and Commonwealth
Author: Martin KitchenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349248304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
Imperial Commonwealth
Author: Godfrey Elton Baron EltonPublisher: New York : Reynal & Hitchcock
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Imperial Commonwealth
Author: Arthur Pierre PoleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Empire's New Clothes
Author: Philip MurphyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190935006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.
An Imperial Commonwealth
Author: Charles Reginald EnockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Imperial Commonwealth : a Geographical, Political, Social and Economic Survey of the British Empire
Author: Ernest YoungPublisher: Edinburgh : New University Society
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth of Nations
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
IMPERIAL COMMONWEALTH BEING A
Author: C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) 1. EnockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781362992936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Imperial Commonwealth...
Author: James FairgrievePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
An Imperial Commonwealth
Author: C. Reginald EnockPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332757046
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description