Empire and Commonwealth Year Book
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Ronald Stanley Russell (ed)
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
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Category : Great Britain
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Author : Ronald S. Russel
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Philip Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0190935006
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.
Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1996-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1349248304
From its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
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Page : 564 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Ronald Stanley Russell
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 1961
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 19??
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Page : 569 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1959
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Commonwealth countries
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