British Empire


Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Burmese Days
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay DolinThe Potato by Larry ZuckermanA Naked View of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by Timothy BarnesSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade by Michael S. Nassaney
Trade and Resources
143 books — 13 voters
Rebel Queen by Michelle    MoranThe Rani of Jhansi by Harleen SinghRani by Jaishree MisraManu by Christopher NicoleQueen of Glory by Christopher Nicole
Rani of Jhansi
7 books — 2 voters

The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War by Elizabeth van HeyningenViva os Boers! Boeregeïnterneerdes in Portugal tydens die Ang... by O.J.O. FerreiraThe Diary of Iris Vaughan by Iris VaughanAbraham Esau's War by Bill NassonEmily Hobhouse by Elsabé Brits
The Second Boer War
111 books — 5 voters
Antunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawThe Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry BirdgenawThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Apprentice's Sorcerer by Ishay LandaLiberalism by Domenico Losurdo
Liberalism & Fascism - Capitalism
25 books — 3 voters

A Modest Independence by Mimi MatthewsThe Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia YuThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeSingapore Sapphire by A.M.   StuartRagtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly
Colonial Asia (fiction)
9 books — 4 voters

Imperialism, like dictatorship sears the soul, degrades the spirit, and makes individuals small, the better to rule them. Fear and cowardice are its allies. Imperialism is government of other people, by other people, and for other people. Colonial administration never is, and never can be successful. History has known no good colonisers. Every empire digs its own grave. Imperialism is a perpetual insult, for it assumes that the outsiders has the right to rule the insider who cannot rule themselv ...more
Louis Fischer, Life of Mahatma Gandhi

Mark   Ellis
Murder calls were never welcome, but this one had a small silver lining.it was going to get Merlin out of a sticky predicament.
Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

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