Author: William Arthur Wills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Author: Piers Brendon
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307270289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307270289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
The downfall of Lobengula
Author: William Arthur Wills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Black Man's Burden
Author: Edmund Dene Morel
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
King Solomon's Mines
Author: Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198722958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Allan Quatermain leads an expedition in search of a missing man and the fabled King Solomon's mines in deepest Africa. His exciting adventures captivated readers, and this new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and colonial attitudes to native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198722958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Allan Quatermain leads an expedition in search of a missing man and the fabled King Solomon's mines in deepest Africa. His exciting adventures captivated readers, and this new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and colonial attitudes to native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire.
The Ndebele Nation
Author: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9036101360
Category : Ndebele (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Publisher: Rozenberg Publishers
ISBN: 9036101360
Category : Ndebele (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Dawn in the Dark Continent, Or, Africa and Its Missions
Author: James Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Harriet's search for her friend introduces a number of location words.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Harriet's search for her friend introduces a number of location words.
Cecil Rhodes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Scottish Geographical Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Guide to Southern Africa
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Imperial Echoes
Author: Robert Giddings
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473815428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', the there were in fact British Soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in some far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set.' Although these campaigns have been well documented by numerous historians, Robbert Giddings, well known as author, journalist and writer for radio and television, here adopts an entirely new approach and relies largely on first-hand accounts to show not mealy what happened but what it was actually like to be there. His sources are many and varied and not confined the the soldier's own records. Nothing, for instance, could surpass in vividness Florentia Sale's brilliant account of the terrible retreat from Kabulin 1842. Due respect is also paid to the courage of the opposition. As Lieutenant Charles Townshend wrote after Omdurman in 1898, 'The Valour of these poor half-starved Dervishes...would be graced by Thermopylae.' The book continues eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars: Maratha, Gurkha, Burmese, Ashanti, opium, Afghan, Maori, Sikh, Kaffir, Persian, Abyssinian, Zulu, Boer, Egyptian, Sudanese and Matabele. The list alone shows how busy the British Soldier was throughout the nineteenth century. The text itself brilliantly recapture the nature of soldiering in that era.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473815428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', the there were in fact British Soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in some far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set.' Although these campaigns have been well documented by numerous historians, Robbert Giddings, well known as author, journalist and writer for radio and television, here adopts an entirely new approach and relies largely on first-hand accounts to show not mealy what happened but what it was actually like to be there. His sources are many and varied and not confined the the soldier's own records. Nothing, for instance, could surpass in vividness Florentia Sale's brilliant account of the terrible retreat from Kabulin 1842. Due respect is also paid to the courage of the opposition. As Lieutenant Charles Townshend wrote after Omdurman in 1898, 'The Valour of these poor half-starved Dervishes...would be graced by Thermopylae.' The book continues eye-witness accounts from the following campaigns and minor wars: Maratha, Gurkha, Burmese, Ashanti, opium, Afghan, Maori, Sikh, Kaffir, Persian, Abyssinian, Zulu, Boer, Egyptian, Sudanese and Matabele. The list alone shows how busy the British Soldier was throughout the nineteenth century. The text itself brilliantly recapture the nature of soldiering in that era.