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  • Decolonization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945 to 193 today. Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the historic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Mungo Park's Ghost

    The Haunted Hubris of British Explorers in Nineteenth-Century Africa

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    In 1816 the British sent two large, ambitious expeditions to Africa, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. Their shared goal was to complete the unfinished mission of Mungo Park, who had disappeared during a journey to determine whether the Niger and the Congo were the same river. Both quests ended disastrously and were soon forgotten. ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Highly Civilized Man

    Richard Burton and the Victorian World

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised his abundant talents in a diverse array of endeavors. Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Decentring Empire

    Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (1 Edition)

    by Durba Ghosh, Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series NPSAH
    This volume charts a new direction in the study of British imperialism, its impact on India and other colonial territories, and its influence in propelling the forces of globalisation. Moving beyond the standard model of a bilateral circuit between imperial centre and colonial periphery, it highlights instead the web of transcolonial and transnational networks that spread across and beyond the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Last Blank Spaces

    Exploring Africa and Australia

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Imperial History Wars

    Debating the British Empire

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a wide-ranging assessment of the main schools of thought that have transformed the way we view the British Empire and the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Britain and Empire, 1880-1945

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth century and ends with the Second World War, at the end of which Britain was on the brink of decolonisation.The author shows how empire came to figure ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Reinterpreting Exploration

    The West in the World

    Edited by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • How Empire Shaped Us

    Edited by Professor Antoinette Burton, Dane Kennedy ...
    Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into the past?In seeking to answer these questions, the proposed volume brings together some of the leading figures in the ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Unfinished Empire

    The Global Expansion of Britain

    by John Darwin ...
    John 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 ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century

    by Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Read more

    $40.49 USD