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The Oxford history of the British Empire
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The Oxford history of the British Empire
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How Empire Shaped Us
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North America, New Zealand and Australia were colonised by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. This book analyses how this doctrine was used to gain control over the indigenous peoples, and how this control continues t…
The debate on the rise of the British empire
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This title explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power.
"This book analyzes the political effects of scientific research as exemplified by one field, economic botany, during one epoch, the nineteenth century, when Great Britain was the world's most powerful nation. Lucile Brockway examines how the British botanic garden network devel…
"During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. …
