british empire
The Second British Empire: The British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance
... as British law was applicable in other remnants and debris of the empire, in the Caribbean and the pacific islands, they could introduce Euromarke operations in these localized ...second British ...
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The role of the British Empire in the Attlee governments' social democratic success
... the British Labour governments in power between 1945 and 1951 are mistaken in presenting the government’s management of the sterling crises as having been apolitical and ...the British Empire more ...
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David A.J. Richards, The Rise of Gay Rights and the Fall of the British Empire
... show how they still remain uncritically constrained by the very same patriarchal social structures imposed on them by the British Empire itself. Richards’ project is a tour de force of interdisciplinary ...
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The British Empire in the Pacific War
... the British Empire did during the Pacific War we need to remember that broad Allied strategy was determined by a conference in Washington in February 1941, when Britain and the United States agreed that in ...
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Rage for Order: the British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800 1850
... The book’s methodological proposition is that looking at the evolution of international law through the lens of intellectual history, the dominant strategy in recent scholarship, only gets us so far. Benton and Ford seek ...
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Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire
... the British Empire from the early 19th century until its demise, Auerbach has chosen an ambitious canvas on which to address these issues and has produced an engaging and highly readable study of a complex ...
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Motivation, Identity and Collaboration in the Scholarly Networks of the British Empire, 1830-1930
... the British Empire primarily in spatial terms, and decoupling it from an automatic connection with empire as idea or ideology, is that it encourages us to treat it in a comparative light, alongside ...
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Commodity culture : tropical health and hygiene in the British Empire
... Influential empire builders, phys- icians, politicians, missionaries, traders, planters and countless others interested in Britain’s tropical proces- sions were also present in great ...the British tropical ...
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From the Andes to the Outback : Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
... the British Empire, it also exposed certain tensions in these ...The British, the Australians and the Peruvians all invested these valuable animals with their own specific hopes and expectations, ...
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Remembering the Great War in the Dominions of the British Empire
... the British Empire, the contribution of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in quantitative terms was behind only India’s total number of mobilized personnel; it was also in a similar position in regards to ...
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Jane Groom and the Deaf Colonists: Empire, Emigration and the Agency of Disabled People in the late Nineteenth-Century British Empire
... Unlike race and gender, which are staples of postcolonial analysis, disability is not generally included in discussions of the British Empire. But disability studies theorists have argued powerfully that ...
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Migration, Settlers and the British Empire
... for British migration: Canada, Australia and New Zealand – plus ‘Africa South of the ...the British Empire ‘made’ the modern world is doubtful, but they are certainly in no doubt as to the lasting ...
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The British Empire Debate
... imperialist’ framing to recognise the highly partial account that these films provided. Nor is it necessary to overlook the differences between imperial and post-imperial Britain to recognise the recurrence of classic ...
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Herman Merivale and the British Empire, 1806 1874, with Special Reference to British North America, Southern Africa and India
... his British contemporaries Merivale deplored the Spanish use of slave labour, the "avarice" and the "practices revolting to human nature" which had often accompanied i t ...the British in ...
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The Judicial Committee as Constitutional Court for the British Empire 1833-1971
... These decided such points as the following: a judge cannot be dismissed by the Governor-in-Council without being allowed a hearing; 00 the ordinary civil servant may[r] ...
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Money and Overseas Investments in the Relative Fall of British Empire
... The most significant contribution to reconstruction of British overseas investments estimation through indirect method is due to the impressive work of Imlah(1958). His research cover almost a century, 1816-1913. ...
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The British Empire and Freemasonry Some thoughts on how one followed the other
... The Great War cost the United Kingdom vast sums of money and they had to ask the United States for loans. Gradually economic power drained away from the British to be replaced by the emerging new world – the ...
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The United Kingdom and British Empire: A Figurational Approach
... Furthermore, this ‘loss’ has echoed throughout British political discourse since the 1970s. For former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, Britishness was seen to reflect a heavy dose of nostalgic ...
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"Are you proud to be British?" : Mobile film shows, local voices and the demise of the British Empire in Africa
... travelled back out to Nigeria in 1936, his occupation on the immigration records was listed as ‘sanitation inspector.’ Even in 1940 when working for the CFU, he was listed as a ‘Civil Servant’. While Sellers would spend ...
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A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry
... in British silent cinema (Anthony Slide in McFarlane 2008: 650), Samuelson was a showman with an infectious enthusiasm for films, producing over 90, including the highly successful pageant Sixty Years a Queen ...
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