Decline And Fall Of The British Empire (Brendon Piers)(Paperback / softback)

Decline And Fall Of The British Empire (Brendon Piers)(Paperback / softback)

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by Imperial

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon Edward)(Paperback)

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in

India Conquered - Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire (Wilson Jon)(Paperback / softback)

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South

The Austrian Revolution (Bauer Otto)(Paperback)

This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping

Simon: A Decline and Fall of the English Landed Gentry (Heddle Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Fall Of The West - The Death Of The Roman Superpower (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon (O'Brien Karen)(Paperback)

Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus in the late second century CE, Gibbon's work

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition (Gibbon Edward)(Paperback)

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth

Farewell the Trumpets (Morris Jan)(Paperback / softback)

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in

Lion and the Eagle - The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972 (Burk Kathleen)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

Put Out More Flags (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the

The Tailor of Ulm (Magri Lucio)(Paperback)

A fascinating analysis of the decline and fall of Western communism by a participant

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

British Empire Uniforms 1919 to 1939 (Hallett Edward)(Paperback)

A colourful survey of the uniforms and accoutrements of British Empire forces between the wars from 1919 to

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset (Levine Philippa)(Paperback)

The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living through the experience of colonialism into the

Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party (Beckett Francis)(Paperback)

A history of the British left and its Communist

The Comanche Empire (Hamalainen Pekka)(Paperback)

From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire 'Cutting-edge revisionist western history.'--Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books 'A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern B rbaros

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire (Auerbach Jeffrey A.)(Paperback)

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the

Blood Never Dried - A People's History of the British Empire (Newsinger John)(Paperback / softback)

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (Montesquieu)(Paperback / softback)

Playmaker (Keneally Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a

Rise and Fall of the British Nation - A Twentieth-Century History (Edgerton David)(Paperback / softback)

From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations,