The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 / Piers Brendon
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TextPublication details: London: Jonathan Cape, 2007Description: xxii, 793 p., [24] p. of plates: ill.; 24 cmISBN: 9780224062220Subject(s): Imperialism -- History -- 19th Century | Imperialism -- History -- 20th CenturyDDC classification: 900 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 900 BRE/D (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P09968 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 The World Turned Upside Down
The American Revolution and the Slave Trade
2 'An Engiish Barrack in the Oriental Seas'
Britannia's Indian Empire
3 Exempt from the Disaster of C'aste'
Australia, Clanada and New Zealand
4 To Stop is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin'
The Tar hast and Afghanistan
5 'Sacred Wrath'
Irish Famine and Indian Mutiny
6 'Spread the Peaceful Gospel - with the Maxim Gun'
Towards Conquest in Africa
7 'A Magnificent Empire under the British Flag'
Cape to Cairo
8 'Barbarians Thundering at the Frontiers'
The Boer War and the Indian Raj
9 'The Empire, Right or Wrong'
Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge
10 'Aflame with the Hope of Liberation'
Ireland and the Middle East
11 'Englishmen Like Posing as Gods'
West and East
12 'White Mates Black in a Very Few Moves'
Kenya and the Sudan
13 'Spinning the Destiny of lndia
The Route to Independence
14 ' That is the laid of the British Empire
Singapore and Burma
15 'The Aim of Labour is to Save the Empire
Ceylon and Malaya
16 A Golden Bowl full of Scorpions
The Holy hand
17 ' The Destruction of National Will
Suez Invasion and Aden Evacuation
18 'Renascent Africa'
The Gold Coast and Nigeria
19 ' Uhuru -Freedom'
Kenya and the Mau Mau
20 'Kith and Kin'
Rhodesia and the Central African Federation
21 'Rocks and Islands'
The West Indies and Cyprus
22 'All Our Pomp of Yesterday'
The Falklands and Hong Kong
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