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Teach Your Kids Java: A Playful Introduction to Programming

By Yakov Fain

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Hardcover:

9780405045936, titled "The Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs" | Ayer Co Pub, October 1, 1972, cover price $41.95 | also contains The Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs

Paperback:

9781593276379 | No Starch Pr, September 25, 2015, cover price $34.95

The Changing Scenes of Life: From the Colonial Service to the European Civil Service

By Keith Arrowsmith

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Hardcover:

9781780768342 | Tauris Academic Studies, August 27, 2014, cover price $55.00

A Quest In The Middle East: Gertrude Bell And The Making Of Modern Iraq

By Liora Lukitz

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9781850434153 | Tauris Academic Studies, March 3, 2006, cover price $55.00

Paperback:

9781780766812 | New edition (I B Tauris & Co Ltd, February 27, 2014), cover price $19.95

Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham

Product Description: In the long history of the British Empire there are few stories as singular as that of Margery Perham. From the moment she first set foot on African soil in 1921, to her death over sixty years later, Perham was focused on the ways and means of Britain's administration of its African domains...read more

By C. Brad Faught

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9781848854901 | Tauris Academic Studies, February 15, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In the long history of the British Empire there are few stories as singular as that of Margery Perham.

Brief Authority: A Memoir of Colonial Administration in Tanganyika

Product Description: Charles Innes Meekâs account of his twenty years in Tanganyika â now Tanzania â goes to the heart of British colonial rule at the end of empire. Arriving in the former German colony during the dark days of World War II, Meek describes the challenges of living in a remote colony in war-time and of life among a remarkable cast of frontier characters and colleagues...read more

By Innes Meek (editor)

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9781848858336 | Radcliffe Pr, August 15, 2011, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Charles Innes Meekâs account of his twenty years in Tanganyika â now Tanzania â goes to the heart of British colonial rule at the end of empire.

Edge of Empire: The British Political Officer and Tribal Administration on the North-west Frontier 1877-1947

Product Description: Britain's often rather ad hoc approach to colonial expansion in the nineteenth century resulted in a variety of imaginative solutions designed to exert control over an increasingly diverse number of territories. One such instrument of government was the political officer...read more

By Christian Tripodi

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9780754668381 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Britain's often rather ad hoc approach to colonial expansion in the nineteenth century resulted in a variety of imaginative solutions designed to exert control over an increasingly diverse number of territories.

Thistle and Bamboo: The Life and Times of Sir James Stewart Lockhart

Product Description: Colonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than forty years in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei â the former British leased territory in northern China. His career reflects tension and upheaval in the emerging colony of Hong Kong and in a China rapidly giving way to civil war...read more

By Shiona Airlie

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9789888028924 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, March 15, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Colonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than forty years in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei â the former British leased territory in northern China.

William Tryon and the Course of Empire: A Life in British Imperial Service

By Paul David Nelson

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9780807819173 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95

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9780807865729 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 27, 2011, cover price $45.00

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Product Description: This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'...read more

By David Lambert (editor) and Alan Lester (editor)

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9780521847704 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2006, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Proconsul to the Middle East: Sir Percy Cox and the End of Empire

By John Townsend

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9781848851344 | Tauris Academic Studies, May 15, 2010, cover price $99.00

The End of the British Mandate in Palestine, 1948: The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney

By Moti Golani

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9780230209862 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2009, cover price $105.00

Trespassers Forgiven: Memoirs of Imperial Service in an Age of Independence

Product Description: Within three decades of the end of the Second World War, the once mighty British Empire had been dismantled leaving only a few residual spots of red on the world map. This was the age of de-colonization and Independence.Â Trespassers Forgiven offers a personal glimpse into the history of British Honduras (Belize) at this crucial period in British history...read more

By C. H. Godden

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9781845117801 | 1 edition (Tauris Academic Studies, March 15, 2009), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Within three decades of the end of the Second World War, the once mighty British Empire had been dismantled leaving only a few residual spots of red on the world map.

The Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs

By Ronald Storrs

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9781443725491 | Read Books, November 30, 2008, cover price $47.99

9781436695862 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008, cover price $59.95

9780404563370, titled "Memoirs of Sir Ronald Storrs" | Reprint edition (Ams Pr Inc, December 1, 1977), cover price $54.45

9780405045936 | Ayer Co Pub, October 1, 1972, cover price $41.95 | also contains Teach Your Kids Java: A Playful Introduction to Programming

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9781432570552 | Kessinger Pub Co, March 28, 2007, cover price $44.95

Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey And His Libraries

Product Description: Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia, and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the 19th century. Brilliant and inscrutable, Grey, who was in contact with key Victorians from Darwin to Whately throughout his life, played a central role in overseeing the development of British colonies into politically autonomous entities...read more

By Donald Jackson Kerr

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9781877372216 | Paul & Co Pub Consortium, February 28, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia, and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the 19th century.

Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James's And Cape Town, 1854-1925

Product Description: When asked to choose the most difficult public figure of his era to capture, the noted political cartoonist Sir Francis Carruthers Gould replied: "Milner. You cannot caricature character." "Forgotten Patriot" is the story of one man's dedication to duty, principles, and the British Empire...read more

By J. Lee Thompson

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9780838641217 | 1 edition (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, January 31, 2007), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: When asked to choose the most difficult public figure of his era to capture, the noted political cartoonist Sir Francis Carruthers Gould replied: "Milner.

Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector

By Donald Jackson Kerr

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9781584561965 | 1 edition (Oak Knoll Pr, December 30, 2006), cover price $49.95

Edward Eyre, Race And Colonial Governance

Product Description: Edward Eyre, a mid 19th-century explorer, colonial administrator and colonial governor, is remembered in Australia as the enlightened defender of Aboriginal rights. In England and the Caribbean, he is the reviled 'butcher of Jamaica'...read more

By Julie Evans

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9781877372070 | Paul & Co Pub Consortium, October 30, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Edward Eyre, a mid 19th-century explorer, colonial administrator and colonial governor, is remembered in Australia as the enlightened defender of Aboriginal rights.

Desert Queen

Product Description: This ârichly textured biographyâ (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, coming soon to theaters.Â Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century...read more

By Janet Wallach

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9781400096190 | Anchor Books, July 12, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: This ârichly textured biographyâ (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, coming soon to theaters.

When The Sun Never Set: A Family's Life In The British Empire

Product Description: In 1901, Charles Griffin joined the Colonial Service as one of its first recruits and embarked on a journey to Africa with his young wife Aileen. They had begun a lifetime of travels, which would be shared and extended by their children, Alice and John, and their grandchildren...read more

By Alice M. Boase, Mary Hannah and Margaret Knowlden

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9781850439431 | Tauris Academic Studies, July 8, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In 1901, Charles Griffin joined the Colonial Service as one of its first recruits and embarked on a journey to Africa with his young wife Aileen.

Oliver Baldwin: A Life of Dissent

Product Description: This biography of soldier, statesman, and journalist Oliver Risdale Baldwin, second Earl Baldwin, examines Baldwin's life from his privileged days at Eton as the son of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to his dangerous assignment as correspondent for the Daily Mail covering the Spanish Civil War...read more

By Christopher J. Walker

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9781900850865 | Arcadia Books Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This biography of soldier, statesman, and journalist Oliver Risdale Baldwin, second Earl Baldwin, examines Baldwin's life from his privileged days at Eton as the son of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to his dangerous assignment as correspondent for the Daily Mail covering the Spanish Civil War.

Africa in War and Peace

By Eric S. Packham

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9781560729396 | Nova Science Pub Inc, June 1, 2003, cover price $39.00

Kaunda's Gaoler: Memoirs of a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia and Zambia

Product Description: This is a moving and important memoir of a district officer in Northern Rhodesia, from his arrival in the territory in 1944 and through the momentous period leading to Zambian independence. It includes a spell as Kenneth Kaunda's 'gaoler' during which a personal friendship grew up and flourished, and ends with an appointment to the President's Office in post-independence Zambia...read more

By D. G. Coe and E. C. Greenall

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9781860648625 | Tauris Academic Studies, March 19, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This is a moving and important memoir of a district officer in Northern Rhodesia, from his arrival in the territory in 1944 and through the momentous period leading to Zambian independence.

Remote Corners: A Sierra Leone Memoir

Product Description: In this vivid memoir, Harry Mitchell gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in Sierra Leone in the twilight of empire. Covering such topics as civil war, United Nations occupation, and British control of the diamond trade, Mitchell covers a comprehensive recent history of a country in chaos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Harry Mitchell

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9781860648175 | Tauris Academic Studies, October 4, 2002, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this vivid memoir, Harry Mitchell gives a vivid account of the British Colonial administration in Sierra Leone in the twilight of empire.

Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969

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By John Whitson Cell

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9780521411073 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $125.00

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9780521521178 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $54.99

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Journal of Colonial and Foreign Service

Product Description: Richard Posnett's first post in the Colonial Service was in Uganda. These were times of rapid change for the British Empire in Africa with independence for Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; the tragedy of the Belgian Congo, and the uprising of Hutus against Tutsis in Rwanda...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Owen (foreword by) and Richard Posnett

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9781860646379 | Tauris Academic Studies, November 3, 2001, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Richard Posnett's first post in the Colonial Service was in Uganda.

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