Author : William Francis Collier
Publisher : London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : William Francis Collier
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0190238747
This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.
Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316025659
An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam's 2007 book offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on the experience of decolonization across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. He describes the dysfunctional policies of an imperial system coping with postwar, interwar and wartime crises from 1918 to 1945 but the main emphasis is on the period after 1945 and the gradual unravelling of empire as a result of international criticism, and the growing imbalance between Britain's capabilities and its global commitments. He analyses the transfers of power from India in 1947 to Swaziland in 1968, the major crises such as Suez and assesses the role of leading figures from Churchill, Attlee and Eden to Macmillan and Wilson. This is essential reading for scholars and students of empire and decolonisation.
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780805087444
Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.
Author : Peter Fryer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9780745343730
The follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying Power.
Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521115221
A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
Author : Owen D. Pomery
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1684068282
Working for the British High Commission, Harrison Fleet is posted to a remote arctic island which is still, inexplicably, under British rule. As he struggles to understand why, and what interests he is protecting, Harrison learns just how much of the land and its community lies in the shadow cast by the outpost’s founder. Caught between hostile locals, the British Government, and an unforgiving physical environment, he begins dragging dark secrets into the light, unaware of the tragic repercussions they will cause. And help is very, very far away. Part noir, part historical mystery, British Ice explores the consequences of colonialism and the legacy of empire.
Author : Richard Gott
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1839764228
A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire As the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, Britain’s crimes unspool from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia. Capturing events from the perspective of the colonised, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream histories.
Author : Eleanor Janega
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1785785923
A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other' - women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics. Join historian Eleanor Janega and illustrator Neil Max Emmanuel on a romp across continents and kingdoms as we discover the Middle Ages to be a time of huge change, inquiry and development - not unlike our own.
