Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule. -- .
Provides a unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, examining their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and ...
One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development. -- .
One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new i...
The end of the Empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonization on the British public's sense of international responsibility. -- .
The end of the Empire and the legacies of Britain's imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows ...
Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and distance. It brings to light the importance of music in the lived experience of politics of those who composed, performed and consumed it. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened. -- .
Focussing on radicals and reformers this book explores the role of music in transmitting political culture across the Anglophone world over time and d...
The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural and economic links, while also considering how the mundane concerns of ordinary colonials fared in a strategically vital imperial base, with all its attendant complications. -- .
The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural...
Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution. -- .
Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contributi...
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives. -- .
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial...
