Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British ... Lees meer

Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 1769-1840

Rachel Standfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• British imperial encounters with indigenous cultures created perceptions and stereotypes that still persist today. The initial creation of racial imag... Lees meer

India in the French Imagination

Kate Marsh

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. ... Lees meer

Mercurino di Gattinara and the Creation of the Spanish Empire

Rebecca Ard Boone

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• As Grand Chancellor to the Holy Roman Emperor, Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530) shaped the administration and aims of the Spanish Empire. Ard Boone ... Lees meer

Slaveholders in Jamaica

Christer Petley

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to ... Lees meer

Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830-1910

Robert Ivermee

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from publ... Lees meer

British Narratives of Exploration

Frédéric Regard

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. This work investigat... Lees meer

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

Nicole Starbuck

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the... Lees meer

Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887

Stephen a Royle

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. Th... Lees meer

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Sarah Irving

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiograph... Lees meer

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Sarah Irving

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective | nr. 5
• Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiograph... Lees meer

Slaveholders in Jamaica

Christer Petley

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Explores the social composition of the Jamaican slaveholding class during the era of the British campaign to end slavery, looking at their efforts to ... Lees meer

The English Empire in America, 1602-1658

L H Roper

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape... Lees meer

Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

Nicole Starbuck

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin's scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the... Lees meer

Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650-1725

Timothy Paul Grady

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the ... Lees meer

India in the French Imagination

Kate Marsh

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. ... Lees meer

Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750-1920

Ben Maddison

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explo... Lees meer

The First World War, Anticolonialism and Imperial Authority in British India, 1914-1924

Sharmishtha Roy Chowdhury

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Between 1914, when the Great War began, and 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate ended, British and Indian officials and activists reformulated political ... Lees meer

A Wider Patriotism

J Lee Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• When Alfred Milner was knighted, he took as his motto Communis Patria, 'patriotism for our common country'. This is the study of Milner, which takes h... Lees meer

Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830-1910

Robert Ivermee

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from publ... Lees meer

Empire of Political Thought

Bruce Buchan

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms... Lees meer

Ireland and Empire, 1692-1770

Charles Ivar McGrath

• Hardcover | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this ... Lees meer

Colonialism, China and the Chinese

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• This book explores the place of China and the Chinese during the age of imperialism. Focusing not only on the state but also on the vitality of Chines... Lees meer

British Engineers and Africa, 1875-1914

Casper Andersen

• Paperback | Engels | Empires in Perspective
• Using a wide range of primary sources that include correspondence, diaries, technical reports, institutional minutes and periodicals, Andersen reconst... Lees meer