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Há 1 dia · From January to mid-February 2003 six one-hour television programmes, four lectures to substantial audiences in the University of London’s Senate House, and a large glossy book have been devoted to his theme of ‘empire’ or, as he also puts it, ‘how Britain made the modern world’.
Há 4 dias · J. R. Seeley, The Expansion of England (London, 1883); Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (London, 2003). Back to (2) John Mackenzie, Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of Public Opinion, 1880–1960 (Manchester, 1985).
Há 5 dias · Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Ferguson, Niall. Condition: Brand new. Quantity: More than 10 available. Price: AU $29.75. 4 payments of AU $7.44 with Afterpay. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Add to Watchlist. Postage: May not post to United States. Read item description or contact seller for postage options. See details.
Há 2 dias · The reign was notable for the building of a second empire based in India, Asia and Africa, the beginnings of the industrial revolution that made Britain an economic powerhouse, and above all the life and death struggle with the French, in the French Revolutionary Wars 1793–1802, which ended inconclusively with a short truce, and the epic Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), which ended with the ...
Há 1 dia · Jon Wilson’s India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire is a big book intended to provide a narrative account of how Britain, a small island nation in the northern Atlantic conquered India, a large subcontinental mass that sprawls across the Indian Ocean.
Há 4 dias · In 1783, Britain was a kingdom in crisis, torn apart by factionalism at home and defeat abroad. By the time of Pitt‘s death in 1806, Britain had regained its financial footing, staved off the threat of revolution, and strengthened its grip on a growing empire. All before the age of 50. William Pitt the Younger was not a perfect leader.
Há 4 dias · The Political Systems of Empires. London and New York: Free Press, 1963. Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Gould, Eliga. “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery.”
