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The Lion's share : a short history of british imperialism : 1850-1995
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ISBN: 0582089433 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Longman Group,


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Plots and paranoia : a history of political espionage in Britain 1790-1988
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ISBN: 0044452586 Year: 1989 Publisher: Boston Unwin Hyman

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Espionage --- Intelligence service --- Police --- Political crimes and offenses --- Secret service --- Espionnage --- Service des renseignements --- Crimes et délits politiques --- Service secret --- History --- Political aspects --- Political activity --- Histoire --- Aspect politique --- Activité politique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- Espionage, British --- -Political crimes and offenses --- -Secret service --- -Secret police (Secret service) --- Detectives --- Spies --- Offenses, Political --- Political offenses --- Crime --- Extradition --- Political violence --- Subversive activities --- British espionage --- -History --- England --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Crimes et délits politiques --- Activité politique --- Relations extérieures --- Secret police (Secret service) --- Cops --- Gendarmes --- Law enforcement officers --- Officers, Law enforcement --- Officers, Police --- Police forces --- Police officers --- Police service --- Policemen --- Policing --- Counter intelligence --- Counterespionage --- Counterintelligence --- Intelligence community --- Secret police (Intelligence service) --- Political aspects&delete& --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History. --- Offenses against the State --- State, Offenses against the --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal justice personnel --- Peace officers --- Public safety --- Security systems --- Public administration --- Research --- Disinformation

Empire and superempire : Britain, America, and the world
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ISBN: 0300110103 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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The absent-minded imperialists : empire, society, and culture in Britain
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ISBN: 0199299595 0198208545 9780199299591 9780198208549 0191700924 9786610758746 1429459859 0191513415 1280758740 9780191513411 9781280758744 9781429459853 6610758743 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many were hardly aware of it at all. This lively book is the first study of the impact of the empire on British society and culture that looks beneath the surface to find out what people really thought, with some surprising results. - ;The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in t

The lion's share : a short history of British imperialism, 1850-1983
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ISBN: 0582493870 9780582493872 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Longman


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British imperial : what the empire wasn't
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ISBN: 0755621786 0857726153 0857739573 9780857726155 1784534455 9780857739575 9781784534455 9781857739575 9780755621781 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,

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"The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory -- a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle East. In this provocative book, Bernard Porter argues that many of these judgments arise from some fundamental misreadings of the nature, causes and effects of British imperialism, which was a more complex, ambivalent and in some ways accidental phenomenon than it is often taken to be. Drawing on his fifty years' experience of research and writing on the subject, Porter aims to clear away many of the misconceptions that surround the story of the British Empire's rise, governance and fall; and to point some ways to a fairer (though not necessarily more favourable) assessment of it. He addresses the connections of imperialism with capitalism, racism and British domestic culture, and ends with some reflections on the modern repercussions of both the Empire itself, and the myths which have sprung up around it."--


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Empire ways : aspects of British imperialism
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ISBN: 0755621794 085772617X 085773959X 9780857739599 9780857726179 9781784534462 1784534463 9780755621798 9781350153882 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,

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"The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle flavour of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and discuss aspects of it in detail. This book, by the well-known imperial historian Bernard Porter, ranges among a wide range of the events and personalities that shaped or were shaped by British imperialism, or by its decline in the post-war years. These include chapters on science, drugs, battles, proconsuls, an odd assortment of imperialists including Kipling, Lady Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, architecture, music, the role of MI6 and the reputation of the Empire since its demise. Together the chapters inform, explain, provoke, and occasionally amuse; but above all they demonstrate the kaleidoscopic variety and ambivalence of Britain s imperial history.""--Bloomsbury publishing.


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Britain's Contested History : Lessons for Patriots
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ISBN: 9781350296381 1350296384 9781350296404 1350296392 1350296406 9781350296398 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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Recent years have seen a re-examination of Britain's imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history.In Britain's Contested History, eminent historian Bernard Porter explores the most contested aspects of British history from 1800 to the present day. Examining issues such as Brexit, recent reassessments of Winston Churchill's historical record, the so-called 'culture wars' and Britain's uncomfortable reckoning with its imperial past, the book reconsiders what it means to be a "patriot" in Britain.


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Britain before Brexit : historical essays on Britain and Europe
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ISBN: 1350204757 9781350204751 9781350204744 1350204749 Year: 2021 Publisher: London: Bloomsbury academic,

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