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The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives Sarah E. Stockwell (King's College, London) 9781405125352
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £28.07This volume adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together leading scholars of British imperial history:... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526133267
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown... -
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation by Jonathan Connolly 9780226833620
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture's normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the... -
Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion and Work by Billie Melman 9781349101597
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the... -
Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire by Tony Ballantyne 9780333963609
Booksplease Price: £90.56This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding... -
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies by Dennis L. Dworkin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar... -
The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives by Sarah E. Stockwell 9781405125345
RRP: £97.95Booksplease Price: £90.11This volume adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together leading scholars of British imperial history:... -
Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire by Tony Ballantyne 9780230507036
Booksplease Price: £90.56This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding... -
Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation by Jonathan Connolly 9780226833644
Booksplease Price: £26.68A study of Indian indentured labor in Mauritius, British Guiana, and Trinidad that explores the history of indenture's normalization. In this book, historian Jonathan Connolly traces the... -
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38 by Jill Liddington
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.84The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in... -
Missions and Empire by Norman Etherington 9780199253487
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £45.73The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it... -
Slavery Hinterland - Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 by Felix Brahm 9781783271122
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.22Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor 9780300118094
Booksplease Price: £29.37An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880-1950 by Kevin Grant 9781403986436
Booksplease Price: £90.56Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two... -
Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor
Booksplease Price: £23.70An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837"A widely and deeply researched, elegantly... -
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book... -
The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits by Jed Esty
Booksplease Price: £12.58As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the... -
After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation by Antoinette Burton 9780822331421
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on... -
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary... -
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons by Antoinette Burton 9780822358138
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book... -
The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia by Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton 9780230340183
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social... -
The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia by Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton 9781349342846
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations created from these social... -
A Cultural History of the British Empire by John MacKenzie
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.32A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more... -
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire by Alan Lester 9781316635285
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes... -
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire by Alan Lester 9781107007833
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes... -
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Suman Seth 9781108407007
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if... -
History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past by Geoff Eley 9781839768132
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.16During the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the... -
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire by Alan Lester
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.57Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's... -
Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire by Suman Seth
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.97Before the nineteenth century, travellers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why - if... -
Sharing Perspectives for Educating Young Children with Disabilities: Developing Family and Professional Partnerships Nancy Sall 9781032774268
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54This important book is an exploration of the ways parents, teachers and academics view the development and schooling of young children with disabilities. It offers an in-depth examination of the... -
The Wages of Sin: A compelling tale of medicine and murder in Victorian Edinburgh Kaite Welsh 9781472239822
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02An irresistible mystery set in 1890s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh's THE WAGES OF SIN features a female medical student-turned-detective, and will thrill fans of Sarah Waters and Antonia Hodgson.'Historical... -
Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? Jane Lydon 9780367740238
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization... -
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks 9780674027244
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but... -
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The Wages of Sin: A compelling tale of medicine and murder in Victorian Edinburgh by Kaite Welsh 9781472239822 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.57An irresistible mystery set in 1890s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh's THE WAGES OF SIN features a female medical student-turned-detective, and will thrill fans of Sarah Waters and Antonia Hodgson.'Historical... -
Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World by Tony Ballantyne 9780822338246
Booksplease Price: £31.05Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh... -
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times by Antoinette Burton 9781478010234
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-domestic, feral,... -
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times by Antoinette Burton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals-domestic, feral,... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526160119
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown... -
Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963 by Gemma Romain 9781350106093
Booksplease Price: £36.44This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His experiences touched on some of the most important and intriguing historical themes of the twentieth century... -
Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present by Robert Gildea
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.05'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of...