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

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

The Empire Project (Darwin John)(Paperback)

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a

Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain (Grindrod John)(Paperback / softback)

Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia - Levi Roach

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce

Parallel Movement of the Hands - Five Unfinished Longer Works (Ashbery John)(Paperback / softback)

Collects five long, serial poems which the American master John Ashbery left

Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750 (Lane Kris E.)(Paperback)

Between 1500 and 1750, European expansion and global interaction produced vast wealth. As goods traveled by ship along new global trade routes, piracy also flourished on the world's seas. Pillaging the Empire tells the fascinating story of maritime predation in this period, including the

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

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

Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (Paterson Michael)(Paperback / softback)

From the Great Exhibition to Dickensian slums, the triumph of empire to the anxiety of revolt - Victorian Britain was an age of

Religion, regulation, consumption: Globalising kosher and halal markets (Lever John)(Paperback)

This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and

Barbarians at the Wall - The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

On the Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin)(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

Entertainer (Osborne John)(Paperback / softback)

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private

Darwin (Desmond Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about

Collapsing Empire (Scalzi John)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling space opera from the author of the hugely popular Old Man's War

Genghis Khan (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's

Scientists Who Made History: Charles Darwin (Senker Cath)(Paperback / softback)

Biography of Charles Darwin, looking at the impact of his theory of evolution on the

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

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

Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Crowley Roger)(Paperback / softback)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. This title tells an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance,

Attila The Hun (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless devastation, and brought an end to Rome's pre-eminence in Europe. Attila was coarse, capricious, arrogant, ruthless and

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

Our Kind of Traitor (Carre John le)(Paperback / softback)

Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold