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Anderson, Benedict. IMAGINED COMMUNITIES. |
£10 |
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Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. 224pp. Index. Card covers. How post-colonial countries in Africa and Asia created identities. Fine. 1992 Revised edition, Verso. |
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Ballhatchet, Kenneth. SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN WESTERN INDIA 1817-1830 |
£35 |
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335pp. Index. Portrait of Elphinstone as frontispiece. 1 folding and 1 other map. The integration of the Peshwa's territory into British India. Fine in very good dw. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Bayly, C.A. IMPERIAL MERIDIAN. |
£12 |
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The British Empire and the World 1780-1830. 295pp. Index. In card covers. Very good. 1990 Reprint, Longman. |
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Bell, Sydney Smith. COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. |
£14 |
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470pp. Facsimile of 1859 original. Fine. 1970 New edition, Kelley, New York. |
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Betts, Raymond F. UNCERTAIN DIMENSIONS. |
£12 |
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Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. 263pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1985 Oxford University Press. |
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Blackwood, William and Sons (publish). TALES FROM THE OUTPOSTS. |
£85 |
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In 12 volumes. About 300pp each. Tales and stories covering all aspects of life and adventure in the Empire. Many writen by well-known figures under pseudonyms. Most of the volumes are also available individually. Edited by L.A.Bethell who was an officer in the invasion of Tibet. Very good but a composite set with some inscriptions and markings. 5 volumes have rubbed dustwrappers and one has stained boards. Early 1930s, mostly first editions, Edinburgh. |
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Brown, Judith M and Louis, Wm Roger (edit). THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. |
£24 |
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV. 773pp. Index. 28 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Burroughs, Peter and Stockwell, A.J. MANAGING THE BUSINESS OF EMPIRE. |
£14 |
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262pp. Index. Essays in honour of David Fieldhouse on aspects of imperial economics and administration. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First, Frank Cass. |
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Cannadine, David. ORNAMENTALISM. |
£16 |
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How the British Saw their Empire. 263pp. Index. 36 b/w photographs. Fine in fine dw. 2001 First edition, Allan Lane. |
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Canny, Nicholas (edits). THE ORIGINS OF EMPIRE. |
£24 |
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I. 533pp. Index. 21 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Carrington, C.E. THE BRITISH OVERSEAS. |
£24 |
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Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. 1092pp. Index. 32 plates and 42 maps. Much on India, Burma, Ceylon etc. Very good. Spine rubbed. 1950 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Carter, Marina. VOICES FROM INDENTURE. |
£16 |
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Experiences of the Indian Migrants in the British Empire. 251pp. Index. 'Challenges accepted notions of the post-slavery Indian diaspora'. Mainly in Mauritius. Laminated boards. From the library of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. Very good indeed. 1996 First edition, Leicester University Press. |
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Cole, Brigadier D.H. IMPERIAL MILITARY GEOGRAPHY. |
£18 |
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General Characteristics of the Empire in Relation to Defence. 414pp. Index. 28 maps, 12 folding. 1 chapter and 4 maps relate to India. Including large folding map of the Northwest Frontier. First published 1924. Very good. 1937 9th edition, Sifton Praed. |
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Cole, Brigadier D.H. IMPERIAL MILITARY GEOGRAPHY. |
£18 |
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The geographical background of the defence problems of the British Commonwealth. 332pp. Index. 10 folding maps. First published 1924 and repeatedly revised as circumstances changed. Very good. 1956 12th edition, Sifton Praed. |
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Cross, Colin. THE FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1918-1968. |
£12 |
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368pp. Index. Hoe Britain's world power evaporated. Very good in very good dw. 1968 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Darby, Phillip. THE FICTION OF IMPERIALISM. |
£12 |
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Reading between International Relations and Postcolonialism. 250pp. Index. 57pp chapter on 'The Indo-British Relationship'. Paperback edition. Fine. 1998, Cassell. |
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Dewey, Clive and Hopkins, A.G.(edit). THE IMPERIAL IMPACT: |
£15 |
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Studies in the Economic History of India and Africa. 409pp. Index. Card covers. Very good. 1978 The Athlone Press. |
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Dewey, Clive J. (edits). ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA. |
£16 |
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377pp. Index. Studies in ecomonic history of India during the colonial period. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Manohar, New Delhi. |
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Dewey, Clive J. (edits). THE STATE AND THE MARKET. |
£16 |
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Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Third World. 355pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1987 First, Riverdale Company, Maryland. |
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Dirks, Nicholas B. THE SCANDAL OF EMPIRE. |
£16 |
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India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. 389pp. Index. A study of Warren Hastings and Edmund Burke. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Harvard University Press. |
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Drummond, Ian M. BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE EMPIRE 1919-1939. |
£10 |
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241pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First, Allen & Unwin. |
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Faber, Richard. THE VISION AND THE NEED. |
£12 |
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Late Victorian Imperialist Aims. 150pp. Index. Frontispiece is a Beerbohm caricature of Kipling. One section is devoted to Kipling. Very good in very good dw. 1966 First, Faber. |
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Faber, Richard. THE VISION AND THE NEED. |
£15 |
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Late Victorian Imperialist Aims. 150pp. Index. Frontispiece is a Beerbohm caricature of Kipling. One section is devoted to Kipling. Fine in fine dw. Bookplate. 1966 First, Faber. |
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Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. |
£10 |
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394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good indeed in fine dw. 1973 History Bookclub. |
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Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. |
£15 |
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394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good indeed in like dw. 1973 First edition, Allen Lane. |
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Fieldhouse, D.K. COLONIALISM 1870-1945. |
£10 |
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An Introduction. 151pp. Index. Ex-public library copy. Emphasis on economics. Very good in very good dw. 1981 First, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. |
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Furnivall, J.S. COLONIAL POLICY AND PRACTICE. |
£25 |
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A Comparitive Study of Burma and Netherlands India. 568pp. Index. Map. Ex-college library with minimal markings. Written at the instigation of the Government of Burma, seeking to learn from Dutch practice in Indonesia. Very good. 1948 First, at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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Gill, Anton. RULING PASSIONS. |
£12 |
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Sex, Race and Empire. 192pp. Index. British experience in India and Africa. Fine in fine dw. 1995 First edition, BBC Books. |
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Gilmour, David. THE RULING CASTE. |
£14 |
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Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. 383pp. A study of the ICS. Fine in fine dw. 2005 Second impression, John Murray. |
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Gilmour, David. THE RULING CASTE. |
£16 |
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Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. 383pp. 26 b/w photographs. A study of the ICS. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, John Murray. |
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Government of India. OUR INDIAN EMPIRE. |
£35 |
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A Short Review and Some Hints for the use of Soldiers Proceeding to India. 137pp. Folding map of India. Pocket size. An insight into Imperial attitudes - `quite a slight blow or kick, even a push, none of which would do any damage to a healthy Englishman, will often cause serious harm to a native'. Also included in the rear pocket are 2 foolscap cyclostyled sheets listing the units in 'The Army of the Black Sea'. Very good. No date (c1914-18), H.M.S.O. |
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Hutchins, Francis G. THE ILLUSION OF PERMANENCE. |
£24 |
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British Imperialism in India. 217pp. Index. How British justifications for their rule changed during the 19th century. Fine in very good dw. 1967 First edition, Princeton University Press. |
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James, Lawrence. RAJ. |
£12 |
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The Making and Unmaking of British India. 722pp. Index. 8 maps. 59 illustrations. Very good in very good dw. 1998 St Martin's Press, New York. |
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James, Lawrence. RAJ. |
£14 |
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The Making and Unmaking of British India. 722pp. Index. 8 maps. 59 illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1998 St Martin's Press, New York. |
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James, Lawrence. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. |
£20 |
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704pp. Index. Monumental and original study with several chapters on India. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Little, Brown & Co. |
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Jasanoff, Maya. EDGE OF EMPIRE. |
£15 |
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Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850. 504pp. 49 b/w illustrations. A brilliant analysis of cross-cultural lives in India and Egypt. Much on Lucknow and Seringapatam. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Knopf, New York. |
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Judd, Denis. EMPIRE. |
£8 |
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The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present. 517pp. Index. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1996 Harper Collins. |
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Kirk-Greene, Anthony. ON CROWN SERVICE. |
£15 |
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A History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837-1997. 276pp. Index. 16 b/w photographs and 2 maps. Excellent bibliographies. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, I.B.Tauris. |
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Lapping, Brian. END OF EMPIRE. |
£10 |
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560pp. Many b/w illustrations. The first 100 pages cover the independence of India. Related to the Granada television series. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, Granada. |
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Lipton, Michael and Firn, John. THE EROSION OF A RELATIONSHIP. |
£15 |
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India and Britain since 1960. 427pp. Index. Ex-college library. Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Lord, John. DUTY, HONOUR, EMPIRE. |
£18 |
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The Life and Times of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. 412pp. Index. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Very good in very good dw. 1971 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Low, D.A. ECLIPSE OF EMPIRE. |
£18 |
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375pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First, Cambridge University Press. |
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Mangan, J.A. THE GAMES ETHIC AND IMPERIALISM. |
£15 |
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Aspects of the diffusion of an Ideal. 239pp. Index. 47 b/w photographs. Includes a chapter `Eton in India - the Careful Creation of Oriental Englishmen'. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First Viking. |
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Marshall, P.J. (edits). THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. |
£18 |
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II. 639pp. Index. 26 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in very good dw with faded spine panel. 1998 Second impression, Oxford University Press. |
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Masefield, G.B. A HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL AGRICULTURAL SERVICE. |
£25 |
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184pp. Index. Covers Ceylon but not India. Much on tropical agriculture in Africa and the West Indies. Short biographies of 16 senior officers. Ex-museum library with no spine marks. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford. |
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Metcalf, Thomas R. IDEOLOGIES OF THE RAJ. |
£25 |
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244pp. Index. In the New Cambridge History of India. Fine in fine dw. 1994 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Moore, R.J. LIBERALISM AND INDIAN POLITICS 1872-1922. |
£14 |
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136pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1966 First edition, Edward Arnold. |
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Morris, James. FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS. |
£14 |
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An Imperial Retreat. Final volume in the Pax Britannica trilogy. 576pp. 15 full-page b/w photographs. Very good in loose dw. 1978 First Faber. |
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Morris, James. FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS. |
£24 |
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An Imperial Retreat. 576pp. 15 full-page b/w photographs. Final volume in the Pax Britannica trilogy. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Faber. |
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Morris, James. FAREWELL THE TRUMPETS. |
£10 |
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An Imperial Retreat. Final volume in the Pax Britannica trilogy. 576pp. 15 full-page b/w photographs. Ex-public library copy A well-read copy in protected dw. 1978 First Faber. |
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Morris, James. HEAVEN'S COMMAND. |
£15 |
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An Imperial Progress. 554pp. Index. 32 full-page b/w illustrations. First volume in the Pax Britannica trilogy. Fine in fine dw. 1973 First Faber. |
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Morris, James. PAX BRITANNICA. |
£20 |
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The Climax of an Empire. A portrait of the Empire at Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. Second volume in the trilogy. 544pp. 31 full-page b/w illustrations. Fine in near-fine dw. 1968 First Faber. |
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Moxham, Roy. TEA |
£12 |
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Addiction, Exploitation and Empire. 272pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 2003 First edition, Constable. |
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Pla, Josefina. THE BRITISH IN PARAGUAY 1850-1870. |
£14 |
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277pp + xxiii pp introduction. Index. Folding map. Translated from the Spanish. Fine. 1976 The Richmond Publishing Company. |
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Porter, Andrew (edits). THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. |
£24 |
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The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume III. 774pp. Index. 30 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dw. 1999 First edition, Oxford University Press. |
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Rosenthal, Michael. THE CHARACTER FACTORY. |
£12 |
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Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement. 335pp. Index. 15 b/w photographs. A study of the imperial ethos. Fine in fine dw. 1986 First Collins. |
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Said, Edward W. CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM. |
£12 |
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444pp. Index. Paperback edition. Includes 37pp chapter on 'Kim' and short study of 'A Passage to India'. Very good. 1993 Chatto. |
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Said, Edward W. CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM. |
£20 |
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444pp. Index. Includes 37pp chapter on 'Kim' and short study of 'A Passage to India'. Fine in fine dw. 1993 First Chatto. |
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Said, Edward W. ORIENTALISM. |
£6 |
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Western Conceptions of the Orient. 396pp. Index. Paperback reprint. Very good. 1995 Penguin Books. |
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Sandison, Alan. THE WHEEL OF EMPIRE. |
£15 |
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A Study of the Imperial Idea in Some Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Fiction. 213pp. Index. Studies of Kipling, Conrad, Haggard and Buchan. Fine in fine dw. 1967 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Saul, David. VICTORIA'S WARS. |
£16 |
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The Rise of Empire. 503pp. Index. 53 b/w illustrations and 16 maps. Imperial expansion between 1837 and 1861. Much on Afghanistan, Sikh Wars, Burma and the Mutiny. Fine in fine dw. 2006 First edition, Viking. |
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Schweinitz, Karl de. THE RISE AND FALL OF BRITISH INDIA. |
£15 |
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Imperialism and Inequality. 275pp. Index. Fine. 1983 First edition, Methuen. |
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Strachey, John. THE END OF EMPIRE. |
£12 |
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351pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1959 First, Gollancz. |
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Ward, John Manning. COLONIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT. |
£18 |
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the British Experience 1759-1856. 399pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1976 First edition, Macmillan. |
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Weidenhofer, Maggie. COLONIAL LADIES. |
£12 |
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120pp. A selection from the letters and diaries of women settlers in Australia Fine in fine dw. 1985 First edition, O'Neill, Australia. |
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Winchester, Simon. OUTPOSTS. |
£12 |
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317pp. 27 b/w photographs. Maps. Visits to the last territories of the British Empire. 34pp on the British Indian Ocean Territory and Diego Garcia. Very good indeed in like dw. 1985 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Wurgaft, Lewis D. THE IMPERIAL IMAGINATION. |
£18 |
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Magic and Myth in Kipling's India. 211pp. Index. About the British view of themselves and their 'mission' in India. Moves between history and literature with extensive reference to Maud Diver and Flora Annie Steele as well as Kipling. Fine in fine dw. 1983 First edition, Weslyan University Press, Connecticut. |
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