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  • Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies

    Wealth, Power, and Slavery

    by P. J. Marshall ...
    Edmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day-to-day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies, which featured so largely in British concerns in the later eighteenth century. Initially, Burke saw the islands as a means by which his close ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Problems of Empire

    Britain and India, 1757-1813

    by P. J. Marshall ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire
    This book, first published in 1968, is a study of the impact made on Britain by the conquest of large parts of India in the second half of the eighteenth century. The sudden success of the East India Company in subjugating a vast population with a sophisticated civilization created problems of an unprecedented kind for Britain. It raised in an acute form questions about the scope and limits of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • 'A Free though Conquering People'

    Eighteenth-Century Britain and its Empire

    by P.J. Marshall ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The present collection brings together a series of studies by Peter Marshall on British imperial expansion in the later 18th century. Some essays focus on the thirteen North American colonies, the West Indies, and British contact with China; those dealing specifically with India have appeared in the author's 'Trade and Conquest: Studies on the rise of British domination in India'. The majority, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 2 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire. This is the age of General Wolfe, Clive of India, and Captain Cook. The international team of experts deploy the latest scholarly research to trace and analyse ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Jungle Man: The Autobiography Of Major P. J. Pretorius C.M.G. D.S.O. and Bar

    by Major P. J. Pretorius ...
    The true story of Major Jan Pretorius, a South African elephant hunter and adventurer, this is a true tale of continuous adventure for a lifetime and considered one of the most extraordinary ever written. Pretorius also gives the first full account of the search for the German cruiser Königsberg which had sunk the Pegasus at Zanzibar and then gone into hiding in the Rufiji delta."I have never seen ... Read more

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    by Adam Smith, Andrew Skinner ...
    Series Book 2 - The Wealth of Nations
    Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with America's Declaration of Independence. These volumes include Smith's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will be ... Read more

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  • 1789

    The Threshold of the Modern Age

    by David Andress ...
    The acclaimed author of The Terror examines the revolutionary transformations of the late eighteenth century in this "humane, compelling account" ( The Independent , UK).In 1789, the fates of France, the nascent United States, and their common enemy Britain, lay interlocked. Bankrupted by its support for America's revolution, France was now hurtling toward its own. The United St... ... Read more

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  • A Century of Wrong

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    At the advent of the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War), F.W. Reitz, in his capacity of State Secretary of the South African Republic, published an overview of Anglo-Boer relations in the nineteenth century in Dutch, under the title Eene eeuw van onrecht. The book was an important propaganda instrument against the British. ... Read more

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  • Inventing Freedom

    How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World

    by Daniel Hannan ...
    British politician Daniel Hannan's Inventing Freedom is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled.According to Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms—individual rights, ... Read more

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  • A Legal History for Australia

    by Dr Sarah McKibbin, Libby Connors, Marcus Harmes ...
    This is a contemporary legal history book for Australian law students, written in an engaging style and rich with learning features and illustrations. The writers are a unique combination of talents, bringing together their fields of research and teaching in Australian history, British constitutional history and modern Australian law.The first part provides the social and political contexts for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Irish History and the Irish Question (Illustrated)

    by Goldwin Smith ...
    “The people of Ireland when history opens were Celts, kinsmen of the primitive races of Gaul and Britain, remnants of which are left in Wales and in the Highlands of Scotland. Their language was of that family, while cognate words connect it with the general Aryan stock. There are traces of a succession of immigrations. Too much, no doubt, has been made of the influence of race. Yet the Teuton is ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

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