Captives - Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (Colley Linda)(Paperback / softback)

Captives - Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (Colley Linda)(Paperback / softback)

Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look different once the captive's perspective is

Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback / softback)

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (Colley Linda)(Paperback)

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, Britons

Acts of Union and Disunion (Colley Linda)(Paperback / softback)

In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, the author analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past. She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far and why it has faded. She discusses the Acts of Union with Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and their

Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850 (Benton Lauren)(Paperback)

This wide-ranging volume advances our understanding of law and empire in the early modern world. Distinguished contributors expose new dimensions of legal pluralism in the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Ottoman empires. In-depth analyses probe such topics as the shifting legal privileges

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, Ad 800-1600 (Herold Hajnalka)(Paperback)

Medieval Rural Settlement: Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600 is a major assessment and review of the origins, forms and evolutions of medieval rural settlement in Britain and Ireland across the period c. AD 800-1600. It offers a comprehensive analysis of early to late medieval settlement, land use,

Unfinished Empire - The Global Expansion of Britain (Darwin John)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked. This book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses

Empire And Revolution - A Socialist History of the First World War (Sherry Dave)(Paperback / softback)

Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire (El-Enany Nadine)(Paperback)

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off

The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850 (Morgan Kenneth)(Paperback)

The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major

Empire of the Moghul: Ruler of the World (Rutherford Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Brief History of the Roman Empire (Kershaw Dr Stephen P.)(Paperback / softback)

A new look at the rise and fall of the greatest empire the world has ever

The Empire at Home: Internal Colonies and the End of Britain (Trafford James)(Paperback)

Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, James Trafford

The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800 (Emmer Pieter C.)(Paperback)

How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global empire that stretched along the edges of

Rule Britannia - Brexit and the End of Empire (Dorling Danny)(Paperback / softback)

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can reconcile itself to a new beginning, there is the chance to carve out a new

Death Relic (Kuzneski Chris)(Paperback / softback)

The New World, 1545... Vanquished by the Spanish Empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artifact so powerful - so deadly - that it was known throughout

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the

Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire (Bell Duncan)(Paperback)

Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) (Rodrguez Prez Yolanda)(Pevná vazba)

Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire (Hobbs Richard)(Paperback)

An illustrated introduction to the history, society, culture and art of Britain when it was a province of the Roman Empire, this book presents Britain's Roman heritage together with new photography of recently-discovered

Casting Shadows - Fish and Fishing in Britain (Fort Tom)(Paperback / softback)

A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Peer into the secret, silent world of the freshwater fish and explore evolution of the art and industry of fishing in Britain's rivers and

Secret Spell (Chapman Linda)(Paperback / softback)

When Lottie and her friends meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure unfolds. Someone in the village is using dark magic and the Star Friends need to work together to figure it out who it is. Can they find out what is happening and how to stop

Prophet Muhammad - A Biography (Rogerson Barnaby)(Paperback / softback)

The Prophet Muhammad was the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation - this is his