Empire-building and Empire-builders: Twelve Studies

ISBN-13: 9780714646121 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 252 str.

Edward Ingram;Ingram Edward

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The essays re-interpret the work of imperial heroes, eminent historians, and fictional heroines, and illustrate the variety of techniques used by British empire-builders and the explanations they gave to account for their sometimes infamous

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Canadian Journal of History, Vol 31, Dec 96 - review by Douglas M Peers, University of Calgary

"Empire-Building and Empire-Builders is vintage Ingram: it is witty, iconoclastic, and sardonic, and yet its playfulness belies the serious scholarship upon which it rests, and the provocative insights it affords. Students of imperial and international history will find in it much that will amuse, excite and (in some cases) infuriate them. What better recommendation is there?

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Edward Ingram