British Victory in Egypt, 1801

The End of Napoleon's Conquest

By Dr Piers Mackesy, Piers Mackesy

In 1800 the British Army was the laughing-stock of Europe. A year later, after forty years of failure, its honour and reputation had been redeemed.
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1995 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04064-8 (Routledge)

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Imperialism and its Contradictions

Edited by Harvey Kaye

V.G. Kiernan is recognised as one of the most remarkable historians of the 20th. Sensitive to the tragic and ironic character of human history, he...

1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90797-2 (Routledge)

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Soldier Heroes

British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities

By Graham Dawson

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes...

1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-08882-4 (Routledge)

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The Life and Times of Henry Clarke of Jamaica, 1828-1907

By James Walvin

When Henry Clarke died in 1907 his obituary described him as an Englishman, yet he had only spent the first 19 years of his life...

1994 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4551-3 (Routledge)

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Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires After 1945

By R. F. Holland Edited by Robert Holland

Bringing together for the first time leading historians of European decolonization, this book is a landmark in the comparative analysis of the fall of the...

1994 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4109-6 (Routledge)

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Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy, Nicholas Rogers

This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates...

1993 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4152-2 (Routledge)

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An Imperial State at War

Britain From 1689-1815

Edited by Lawrence Stone

The study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged...

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06142-1 (Routledge)

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Colonialism and Development

Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960

Edited by Michael A. Havinden, David Meredith

British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical...

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-02043-5 (Routledge)

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Great Nations Still Enchained

The Cartoonists' Vision of Empire 1848-1914

By Dr Roy Douglas, Roy Douglas

The grandeur of the great imperial powers of the nineteenth century - Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and even the burgeoning United States, was constantly...

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-415-06856-7 (Routledge)

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The German Colonial Empire 1884-1919

By W.O. Henderson

As Germany's industrial and military power grew towards the end of the nineteenth century she belatedly went in search of land overseas. In an era...

1993 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-3427-2 (Routledge)

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