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British Empire Books
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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,058 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,303 ratings — published 2019
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,887 ratings — published 2016
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,608 ratings — published 1994
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 19 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,317 ratings — published 1990
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,269 ratings — published 2022
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,258 ratings — published 2021
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 735 ratings — published 2012
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 897 ratings — published 1973
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 217 ratings — published 2009
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,180 ratings — published 2013
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.81 — 810 ratings — published 1997
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.87 — 33,256 ratings — published 1934
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,981 ratings — published 2007
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,874 ratings — published 1924
Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 624 ratings — published 1968
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 16,255 ratings — published 1969
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,694 ratings — published 2006
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,382 ratings — published 2000
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.32 — 494 ratings — published 1978
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,566 ratings — published 2004
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 768 ratings — published 2006
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,728 ratings — published 1973
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,446 ratings — published 1901
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.92 — 717 ratings — published 2007
The Boer War (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,665 ratings — published 1979
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,582 ratings — published 2024
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,515 ratings — published 1986
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 49 ratings — published 1999
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,180 ratings — published 2000
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.53 — 22,764 ratings — published 2018
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,329 ratings — published 2018
Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600 - 1850 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 282 ratings — published 2002
Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,105 ratings — published 1970
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 51 ratings — published 1998
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century Vol 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 80 ratings — published 1998
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published 1999
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle that Shaped the Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,247 ratings — published 2011
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 425 ratings — published 2013
Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,164 ratings — published 1997
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.88 — 244 ratings — published 2004
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.46 — 345 ratings — published 2001
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,576 ratings — published 2005
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.97 — 806 ratings — published 2023
Understanding the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 2010
Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.95 — 39 ratings — published 1961
The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 416 ratings — published 2013
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,103 ratings — published 2011
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.75 — 686 ratings — published 1991
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,906 ratings — published 2016
“Holocaust Theatre (Naskaristana 2799)
Most social issues are rooted in religion,
most religious issues are rooted in politics,
most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.
There's a holocaust remembrance day,
or let me fix your uneducated english:
there's a universally recognized
jewish holocaust remembrance day,
and that's great, but I have just one question -
where is the native american holocaust remembrance,
where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance,
where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance,
where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance -
all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies,
why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
Most social issues are rooted in religion,
most religious issues are rooted in politics,
most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.
There's a holocaust remembrance day,
or let me fix your uneducated english:
there's a universally recognized
jewish holocaust remembrance day,
and that's great, but I have just one question -
where is the native american holocaust remembrance,
where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance,
where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance,
where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance -
all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies,
why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“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 themselves, it is thus arrogant nationalism and inevitably begets an opposing nationalism.”
― Life of Mahatma Gandhi
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 themselves, it is thus arrogant nationalism and inevitably begets an opposing nationalism.”
― Life of Mahatma Gandhi
