How empire shaped us
Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the historical imagination? How has it endured even as its subject slips further into…
"The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored museums. The science museum as we know i…
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
"This book will be aimed primarily at researchers in the field of meteorology and climatology looking for a reference to extreme weather in the UK."-- Prové de l'editor.
"This volume presents a topical and lively discussion of how the criminal justice system attempts to ensure compliance with tax responsibility. Alldridge highlights the development of tax evasion offences and the relationship between evasion and evidential rules, prosecution str…
"This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three s…
