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9781784534455, titled "British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn't" | Tauris Academic Studies, December 18, 2015, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The British Empire is often misunderstood.
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9781784534462 | Tauris Academic Studies, December 18, 2015, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it.
Product Description: As well as presenting a lively narrative of events, Bernard Porter explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations. He sees imperialism as a symptom not of Britain's strength in the world, but of her decline; and he argues that the empire itself both aggravated and obscured deep-seated malaise in the British economy...read more
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9781138130180 | 5 revised edition (Routledge, October 1, 2015), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: As well as presenting a lively narrative of events, Bernard Porter explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations.
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9781408286050 | 5 revised edition (Routledge, June 21, 2012), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: As well as presenting a lively narrative of events, Bernard Porter explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations.
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9781138954434, titled "Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988" | Routledge, July 27, 2015, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: Britainâs secret state exists to protect her from âenemies withinâ.
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9780415079006 | Reprint edition (Routledge, September 1, 1992), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Intrigue, deceit, corruption, villainy, eccentricity, and violence - the many aspects of the fascinating story of Britain's "secret state".
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9781441167392, titled "The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of the New Foreign Office, 1855-1861" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 19, 2011, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Explores the controversy surrounding the design of the new Foreign Office in London during Britain's Imperial heyday.
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9780521088152 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 2008), cover price $44.99
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9781845115067 | Tauris Academic Studies, January 22, 2008, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The notion of ""empire"" has been at the forefront of world politics for over a century.
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9781845115074 | Reprint edition (Tauris Academic Studies, January 22, 2008), cover price $33.00
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9780198208549 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 17, 2004, cover price $43.95
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9780199299591, titled "The Absent-minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, And Culture in Britain" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 28, 2006, cover price $53.00
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9780300110104 | Yale Univ Pr, April 15, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The present American Âempireâ is often compared with the British one of yoreÂnot surprising in view of the fact that Afghanistan and Iraq were once British imperial stamping grounds, too.
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9780582772526 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, October 30, 2004), cover price $73.20 | About this edition: This leading general history of British imperialism, from its Victorian heyday to present times, has been thoroughly revised and updated.
9789990085495 | 4th edition (Addison-Wesley, October 30, 2004), cover price $0.02
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9780582292949 | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, September 1, 1996), cover price $291.67 | About this edition: As well as presenting a narrative of events, this history of British imperialism explores a number of broad analytical themes, challenging some conventional and popular interpretations.
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9780582089433 | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, September 1, 1996), cover price $93.40 | About this edition: On its twentieth anniversary, here is a new edition of this leading general history of British imperialism, from its Victorian heyday to present times.
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9780340561966 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 30, 1994, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence.
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9780340561973 | Hodder Education, September 1, 1994, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: The Great Exhibition of 1851 aptly symbolized Britain's pre-eminence.
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9780851152837 | Reprint edition (Boydell & Brewer Inc, March 1, 1991), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: `This vividly written, fascinating study will be essential reading not only for historians of the British state, but to anyone concerned to understand the origins of contemporary policing problems.
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9780049090408 | 2 sub edition (Unwin Hyman, September 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | also contains Standing in the Sun: A Life of J.M.W. Turner | About this edition: Great Britian Foreign Relations
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9780582493872, titled "The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1983" | 2 sub edition (Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, June 1, 1984), cover price $29.25 | About this edition: history of Brirish Imperialism from 180-1983
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9780049090118 | Unwin Hyman, June 1, 1983, cover price $24.95
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9780521226387 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The British have long boasted of their tradition of asylum for political refugees, but never with more justification than in the nineteenth century, when the legal toleration which was accorded them in Britain was nearly absolute.
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9780312175702 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1969, cover price $27.50
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