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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “muriel e chamberlain”
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  • Longman Companion to the Formation of the European Empires, 1488-1920

    by Muriel E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Longman Companions To History
    The European empires as they existed from the Age of Discovery until after the First World War shaped the modern world. So great has been their political, economic and cultural influence that to fully understand contemporary history and events, it is essential to have an understanding of the imperial past. This book is an impressive achievement. It brings together in one comprehensive volume, all ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Pax Britannica?

    British Foreign Policy 1789-1914

    by Muriel E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Studies In Modern History
    Pax Britannica? is a study of Britain's international role and foreign policy during the century of her imperial greatness. The study shows how her foreign policy was affected, and to some extent, dictated by her domestic political issues. In her stimulating and readable study, Dr Chamberlain explains the how the whole nature of foreign-policy making changed in the nineteenth century. Once the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century

    by Muriel E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Longman Companions To History
    This new Companion brings together, in one single volume, all the essential facts and figures relating to European decolonisation in the twentieth century. Professor Chamberlain has taken each European empire in turn (the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Belgian and Italian) and for each one she has provided a detailed chronology of the process of decolonisation in the individual ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Story of Britain

    From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History

    by Rebecca Fraser ...
    “A beautifully written story, a box of delights, a treasure trove: final proof of truth’s superiority over fiction.”—Andrew RobertsA sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Scramble for Africa

    by M. E. Chamberlain ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    In 1870 barely one tenth of Africa was under European control. By 1914 only about one tenth – Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and Liberia – was not. This book offers a clear and concise account of the ‘scramble’ or ‘race’ for Africa, the period of around 20 years during which European powers carved up the continent with little or no consultation of its inhabitants.In her classic overview, M.E. Chamberlain ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • History of England

    by John Priestley MA MSc ...
    The author, an Oxford graduate, writes a complete political history up to the year 2010. This book is written as traditional history – kings, queens, battles, treaties, acts of Parliament, dates, quotations. The author sets out to discover who the British people really are, with material on the ethnic background of the population. There is still room for plenty of standard history, including the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • History of Britain

    by John Priestley MA MSc ...
    The author, an Oxford graduate, writes a complete political history up to the year 2010. This book is written as traditional history – kings, queens, battles, treaties, acts of Parliament, dates, quotations. The author sets out to discover who the British people really are, with material on the ethnic background of the population. There is still room for plenty of standard history, including the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Empire

    How Britain Made the Modern World

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan MorrisOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Empire

    The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world“Scrupulous scholarship and a rattling good tale.” —Wall Street Journal**The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The English and Their History

    by Robert Tombs ...
    A New York Times 2016 Notable BookRobert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Legacy of Violence

    A History of the British Empire

    by Caroline Elkins ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Merchant Kings

    When Companies Ruled the World, 1600–1900

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    Commerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as ... Read more

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