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Free Download Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Eugenia W. Herbert
English | September 21, 2011 | ISBN: 0812243269 | 420 pages | EPUB | 4.62 Mb
Winner of the 2012 J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies

Free Download Arnold Schmidt, "British Nautical Melodramas, 1820-1850"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138751022 | PDF | pages: 1228 | 12.5 mb
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology ― and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities ― have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum.

Free Download Brian P. Levack, "Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England "
English | ISBN: 0815336721 | 2001 | pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology , extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

Free Download Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Sergio Miller
English | December 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1472868293 | 592 pages | True EPUB | 7.66 MB
A detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served.

Free Download Norman Lowe, "Mastering Modern British History Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 1137603879 | 2017 | 636 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The new edition of this best-selling text includes a new section on the final years of the Labour government after Blair’s resignation and a new chapter on the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments. It is the ideal companion for students taking a first-level course in modern British History, as well as for undergraduates in history.

Free Download Cees Heere, "Empire Ascendant: The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914"
English | 2020 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 0198837399 | PDF | 2,1 mb
In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions.

Free Download Elizabeth Kolsky, "Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0521190789 | PDF | pages: 261 | 14.3 mb
Colonial justice in british india describes and examines the lesser-known history of white violence in colonial india by foregrounding crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of european characters – planters, paupers, soldiers and sailors – elizabet

Free Download British Soldiers of the Korean War: In Their Own Words by Stephen F. Kelly
English | October 1, 2013 | ISBN: 0752487272 | 224 pages | PDF | 3.49 Mb
More than 30,000 British troops fought in Korea between 1950 and 1953 and more than 3,000 died, with over 1,000 being captured and held in atrocious conditions by the Chinese or Koreans. At least half of those captured died in prison camps. More than 70 per cent of those who fought were 18-19 year olds doing national service. They were poorly trained and ill-equipped, fighting much of their time in snowy trenches. This book, for the first time, tells the story of these ordinary soldiers, as well as sailors and airmen, in their own words. It has the full backing of the British Korean Veterans Association, which has over 5,000 members. Most of the veterans are now in their eighties and this will be the last chance for them to tell their tale. So soon after the Second World War, this was a war Britain did not need but she remained steadfast by the side of the Americans, fighting in a hostile environment more than 6,000 miles away in a country nobody could point to on a map. The ‘Special Relationship’ may be a joke to some now – it wasn’t then.

Free Download Catherine S. Chan, "The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting "
English | ISBN: 9463729259 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Diaspora transformed the urban terrain of colonial societies, creating polyglot worlds out of neighborhoods, workplaces, recreational clubs, and public spheres. It was within these spaces that communities reimagined and reshaped their public identities vis-à-vis emerging government policies and perceptions from other communities. Through a century of Macanese activities in British Hong Kong, The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting explores how mixed-race diasporic communities survived within unequal, racialized, and biased systems beyond the colonizer-colonized dichotomy. Originating from Portuguese Macau yet living outside the control of the empire, the Macanese freely associated with more than one identity and pledged allegiance to multiple communal, political, and civic affiliations. They drew on colorful imaginations of the Portuguese and British empires in responding to a spectrum of changes encompassing Macau’s woes, Hong Kong’s injustice, Portugal’s political transitions, global developments in print culture, and the rise of new nationalisms during the inter-war period.

Free Download Paul Nicholson, "The British Museum: Dictionary of Ancient Egypt"
English | 2002 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 9774247620, 0714119539 | PDF | 144,4 mb
This successful and highly-esteemed British Museum reference work is now republished in a new pocket-sized edition. This authoritative illustrated dictionary provides clear explanations and descriptions of the important ideas, events and personalities throughout four thousand years of Egyptian civilization. More than 600 extensively cross-referenced and comprehensively-indexed A-Z entries provide detailed information on all aspects of ancient Egypt and Nubia during the pharaonic and Graeco-Roman periods. Each entry is followed by a bibliography. The dictionary is lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, line drawings, site plans and maps.