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Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,726 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,824 ratings — published 2019
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,478 ratings — published 2016
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,564 ratings — published 1994
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,895 ratings — published 1990
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,127 ratings — published 2022
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,552 ratings — published 2021
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 725 ratings — published 2012
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 865 ratings — published 1973
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,714 ratings — published 1934
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 210 ratings — published 2009
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,960 ratings — published 2013
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.81 — 791 ratings — published 1997
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 15,763 ratings — published 1969
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,865 ratings — published 2007
Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 600 ratings — published 1968
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.32 — 472 ratings — published 1978
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 84,960 ratings — published 1924
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,476 ratings — published 2006
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.53 — 21,974 ratings — published 2018
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.95 — 19,915 ratings — published 2004
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,256 ratings — published 1986
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 744 ratings — published 2006
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,437 ratings — published 1973
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 39,628 ratings — published 1901
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.92 — 702 ratings — published 2007
The Boer War (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,624 ratings — published 1900
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.46 — 17,399 ratings — published 2024
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 4.34 — 3,021 ratings — published 2018
Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600 - 1850 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 275 ratings — published 2002
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,269 ratings — published 2000
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (VOL)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 48 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 — 4,818 ratings — published 2011
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,070 ratings — published 2000
Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 423 ratings — published 2013
Sharpe's Tiger (Sharpe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,931 ratings — published 1997
Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.82 — 936 ratings — published 2011
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.46 — 344 ratings — published 2001
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,508 ratings — published 2005
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.99 — 703 ratings — published 2023
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,051 ratings — published 2011
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.74 — 665 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 — 17,206 ratings — published 2016
Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,771 ratings — published 1975
Flashman and the Mountain of Light (The Flashman Papers, #9)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,850 ratings — published 1990
Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,867 ratings — published 1970
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 373 ratings — published 2005
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 50 ratings — published 1998
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published 1999
The Washing of the Spears (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as british-empire)
avg rating 4.24 — 991 ratings — published 1965
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“Scott found himself caught between a deep-seated loyalty to, and knowledge of, his country and an equally fundamental commitment to the Union with England. He sought to find a way for Scotland to accommodate its sense of identity with the economic and other benefits of being a partner in the greatest empire the world had yet seen, This was both a deliberate and a subconscious for a highly intelligent, complex, energetic and emotional man. To complete it successfully, the Scottish past had to b turned into a kind of serious playground, rich in possibility except for the possibility that it might inform the future in some disruptive way. Scott well knew, because of the way he himself was affected by it, that Scottish history had the potential to release grear energy: fascinated by it, he nevertheless felt a need to keep it, like a wild animal, behind a barrier of time. It was therefore fitting to his purpose that he should make the extraordinary claim to his tens of thousands of readers - in a book aimed particularly at the young - that nothing worth drawing to ther attention had occurred in Scotland in the pasr eighty years.”
― Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now
― Finding Out the Rest: History and Scotland Now
