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9. Mai 2024 · Aside from the books reviewed here, see also Bill Schwarz, The White Man’s World (Oxford, 2011); Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Imperial Endgame: Britain’s Dirty Wars and the End of Empire (London, 2011); Kwasi Kwarteng, Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World (London, 2011); and Britain’s Experience of Empire in ...
28. Apr. 2024 · On St George's Day one hundred years ago, King George V stepped on to the turf of the newly created Wembley Stadium to open the British Empire Exhibition - and in doing so became the first UK ...
Vor einem Tag · This he does by drawing out the legacies of Britain’s empire. He offsets the brutality and destruction associated with slavery, piracy, and events such as the Morant Bay rebellion (1865) or the Amritsar massacre (1919), with factual information to illustrate the triumph of capitalism, the spread of parliamentary institutions, the ...
22. Apr. 2024 · The definition of the British Empire on multiple levels. The expansion of the British Empire. The governance and administration of the British Empire. The Empire's influence on British culture and politics. The end of the British Empire Imperial legacies in the world today.
25. Apr. 2024 · Choice, the fourth novel by English writer Neel Mukherjee, tells three loosely linked stories, with the tiniest overlap in characters but a strong consistency of ideas. The first is the best,...
4. Mai 2024 · This trade, as Ghosh shows, had an outsized impact on today’s world, from the global drug trade to modern India’s economy, where some of today’s economic problems can be traced back to the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Although they do not deal in any detail with non-Eurasian empires, which is somewhat disappointing in a book claiming to be ‘world history’, their comparative framework allows for a transportable model of imperial development, governance, and the inherent flaws in all empires, which can be applied beyond those described in detail in the book. Burbank and Cooper provide some direction for ...
