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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. - 270 p. ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history - as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long sucoession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition and welfare of mankind, he was not, indeed, actually the first. There were several lines of insignificant princes before him, who governed such portions o...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 258 p. David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing novel accounts of the "British problem" in the early modern period...

London: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006, - 191 р. Отзыв редактора - Reed Business Information (c) 2007 Although the subtitle indicates this book's eventual focus, Black (history, Exeter Univ. ; The British Seaborne Empire) begins this concise and comprehensive military history with an overview going back to the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 and 54 B.C.E. The book is organized into three parts: Britain as "imperial parent" (through 1775), as...

Routledge, 1991. - 496 p. Both contemporaries and later historians viewed the Industrial Revolution as a `turning point' in modern British history. No doubt a change occurred, but what was the nature of that change and how did it affect rural and urban society? In this, the first part of his two-volume history of nineteenth-century Britain, Richard Brown examines the economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in the larger context...

Facts on File, 2009. - 296 pages. A Brief History of Great Britain narrates the history of Great Britain from the earliest times to the 21st century, covering the entire island - England, Wales, and Scotland - as well as associated archipelagos such as the Channel Islands, the Orkneys, and Ireland as they have influenced British history. The central story of this volume is the development of the British kingdom, including its rise and decline on...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 - 816р. The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was above all a global phenomenon. Its...

Cambridge University Press, 2001. - 840 pp. The first volume of The Cambridge Urban History surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins in the seventh century down to the sixteenth century. It provides the first detailed overview of the course of medieval urban development, and draws on archaeological and architectural as well as historical sources. The volume combines thematic analysis with regional and national surveys,...

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 398p. Review "This is a first-rate book by a first-rate scholar.It is intellectually sophisticated, clearly written, and its conclusions follow nicely from the evidence marshalled in each chapter.this is a book that all students of the period must read." Keith Neilson, The International History Review ".this is a rich, profound, sometimes difficult work of historical scholarship that deserves to...

Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies, 2011 - 320 p. ISBN10: 1848851960 In the maelstrom of Napoleonic Europe, Britain remained defiant, resisting French imperial ambitions. This Anglo-French rivalry was, essentially, a politico-economic conflict for pre-eminence fought on a global scale and it reached a zenith in 1806-1808 with France's apparent dominance of Continental Europe. Britain reacted swiftly and decisively to implement maritime-based str...

The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Vol. III (1870-1919). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. – 948 p. The publication of the present volume completes the original project set out by the editors of volume i. They envisaged eight volumes, of which the first three would relate the general history of British oversea expansion and imperial policy, two volumes, iv and v, the history of British India, and the remaining three the hist...