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Language: en
Pages: 572
Pages: 572
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:
"[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and th
Language: en
Pages: 856
Pages: 856
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-06 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who serve
Language: en
Pages: 542
Pages: 542
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history
Language: en
Pages: 436
Pages: 436
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-12 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time man
Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that