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Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900-20
By Diane Robinson-Dunn
Based upon extensive archival research and bringing to life the words and actions of extraordinary individuals from the early 20th century, this book calls into question contemporary assumptions ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6921-1
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£85.00
Pre-OrderProtestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950
Empire, religion and emotion
By Hugh Morrison
Protestant missionary children were uniquely 'empire citizens' through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5678-5
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£85.00
Buy NowRoyals on tour
Politics, pageantry and colonialism
Edited by Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0938-5
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£19.99
Buy NowMissionaries and modernity
Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
By Felicity Jensz
Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7443-7
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£25.00
Buy NowThe break-up of Greater Britain
Edited by Stuart Ward and Christian Pedersen
This is the first major attempt to view the break-up of Britain as a global phenomenon, incorporating peoples and cultures of all races and creeds that became embroiled in the liquidation of the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7446-8
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£25.00
Buy NowNegotiating relief and freedom
Responses to disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907
By Oscar Webber
Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6039-3
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£85.00
Buy NowThe breakup of India and Palestine
The causes and legacies of partition
Edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan
This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7030-9
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£90.00
Buy NowThe imperial Commonwealth
Australia and the project of empire, 1867-1914
By Wm. Matthew Kennedy
From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, Australian settler colonists mobilised their unique settler experiences to develop their own vision of what 'empire' was and could be. Reinterpreting their ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6275-5
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£85.00
Buy NowConquering the maharajas
India's princely states and the end of empire, 1930-50
By Harrison Akins
The position of India's princely states is a relatively under-studied aspect of the British withdrawal from India and the early years of Indian and Pakistani independence. Far from playing second ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6785-9
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£85.00
Buy NowDecolonising the Hajj
The pilgrimage from Nigeria to Mecca under empire and independence
By Matthew Heaton
Muslims from the region that is now Nigeria have been undertaking the Hajj for hundreds of years. But the process of completing the pilgrimage changed dramatically in the twentieth century as ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6260-1
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£85.00
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