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  • The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

    New Perspectives

    Edited by David Killingray, Howard Phillips ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find its cause. Despite the magnitude of its impact, few scholarly attempts have been made to examine this ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Africans in Britain

    Edited by David Killingray ...
    This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Policing the empire

    Government, authority and control, 1830-1940

    Edited by David Anderson, David Killingray ...
    Series Book 18 - Studies in Imperialism
    From the Victorian period to the present, images of the policeman have played a prominent role in the literature of empire, shaping popular perceptions of colonial policing. This book covers and compares the different ways and means that were employed in policing policies from 1830 to 1940. Countries covered range from Ireland, Australia, Africa and India to New Zealand and the Caribbean. As ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Policing and decolonisation

    Edited by David Anderson, David Killingray ...
    Series Book 20 - Studies in Imperialism
    As imperial political authority was increasingly challenged, sometimes with violence, locally recruited police forces became the front-line guardians of alien law and order. This book presents a study that looks at the problems facing the imperial police forces during the acute political dislocations following decolonization in the British Empire. It examines the role and functions of the colonial ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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  • Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

    by James Vernon ...
    Series Book 4 - Cambridge History of Britain
    This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers ... Read more

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  • Untied Kingdom

    A Global History of the End of Britain

    by Stuart Ward ...
    How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonization to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century

    by Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 4 - 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

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  • Parliamentary Reform 1785-1928

    by Sean Lang ...
    Series series Questions and Analysis in History
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  • Britain Since 1707

    by Hamish Fraser, Callum G. Brown ...
    Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007.Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments – such as the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy and gender change ... Read more

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  • British Immigration Policy Since 1939

    The Making of Multi-Racial Britain

    by Ian R.G. Spencer ...
    This is the first survey of British immigration policy to include both its pre-World War Two origins and its development after the crucial 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. It is an accessible introduction to a subject of increasing popularity with students and academics. It also integrates the results of extensive archival research. Offering a different perspective to sociological approaches, ... Read more

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  • Black People in the British Empire

    by Peter Fryer ...
    'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ - AkalaBlack People in the British Empire is a challenge to the official version of British history. It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies, and in particular the people of Africa, Asia and AustralasiaPeter Fryer reveals how the ideology of racism was used as justification for ... Read more

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