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Art After Empire(2018)Explores the relationship between art and visual culture in Europe and the ‘wider world’ from the early twentieth century to the contemporary era of globalisation. -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Empire and Art(2018)The book examines the aesthetic interactions between Britain and India during the Raj in relation to issues of empire and considers the visual culture of urban elites and princely states alongside popular arts. It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian cVezava: Mehka44,55 € -
Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911(2018) REED, CHARLESExamines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire. -- .Vezava: Mehka53,46 € -
Art and its Global Histories(2017)A varied selection of content, including excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, and art criticism. The Reader is contextualised under key themes and ideas that underpin the notion of a global art history that spans from the 1400Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Fake History(2022) ENGLISH, OTTOTaking the ten biggest lies from history and looking at the people who propagated them, social commentator and expert historian Otto English shows how our past has been bent and broken, used and abused over time to fit the ends of some of the world's mostVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Empire's New Clothes(2021) MURPHY, PHILIPIs the Commonwealth little more than a mirage -- as lacking in substance as the emperor's new clothes?Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal(2021) MATTHEWS, RODERICKSkewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, 'Peace, Poverty and Betrayal' is a fresh and elegant history of British India.Vezava: Trda41,58 € -
Last Prince of Bengal(2021) INNES, LYNThe extraordinary true story of a flamboyant Indian prince who married an English chambermaid, of his place in the British monarchy and his eventual betrayal. The author is the great-granddaughter of the Nawab - this is her family story.Vezava: Mehka16,98 € -
Rhodes Must Fall(2018)A decisive book written by the Rhodes Must Fall movement, offering unparalleled insight into the institutional racism at the heart of empire.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
British Navy in Eastern Waters(2022) GRAINGER, JOHN DProvides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the earliest times to the present.Vezava: Trda163,65 € -
Imperial Legacies(2019) BLACK, JEREMYBritain yesterday; America today.The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the realVezava: Trda29,33 € -
Capital and Imperialism(2021) PATNAIK, UTSA,PATNAIK, PRABHATThose who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking book—winnVezava: Mehka30,89 € -
Burmese Days(2021) ORWELL, GEORGEBurmese Days is a scathing satire of British colonialism in Burma, featuring an introduction by journalist and writer David Eimer.Vezava: Trda15,41 € -
Algerian War, The Algerian Revolution(2020) VINCE, NATALYAThis book provides a new analysis of the contested history of one of the most violent wars of decolonisation of the twentieth century – the Algerian War/ the Algerian Revolution between 1954 and 1962.Vezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Past Mistakes(2021) MOUNTAIN, DAVIDFrom the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €










