Tag: British

Free Download Jack Taylor, "Oil, Nationalism and British Policy in Iran: The End of Informal Empire, 1941-53"
English | ISBN: 1350320587 | 2024 | 236 pages | PDF | 6 MB
As new nations were formed from the declining British Empire, a murky world of diplomats, oil executives and spies were determined to maintain London’s grip on Iran and its strategic oil reserves. Directed from Whitehall by successive governments, this book explores the complexities and ambiguities of British policy in Iran and demonstrates its centrality to post-war imperial reorientation. Situating Iran within Britain’s ‘informal empire,’ Jack Taylor demonstrates that Clement Attlee’s Labour Government saw Iranian oil as critical to the construction of a domestic New Jerusalem, and used coercion, propaganda, and espionage to preserve their control over it. In doing so, they were forced to confront not only the emerging Cold War, but local resistance expressed through diverse forms including trade unionism, Soviet-inspired Marxism, and popular nationalism.

Free Download Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System"
English | ISBN: 0300251394 | 2022 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How the suppression of the slave trade and the "disposal" of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism

Free Download Adam Twycross, "British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History "
English | ISBN: 3031612124 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked by both comics and newspaper studies to date. Beginning with an examination of the role of the image within British publishing in the final decades of the nineteenth century, the book moves on to explore the arrival and development of the first daily strips. It considers the links that bound these strips to surrounding cultural forms, their relationship to their host newspapers, and their position within the wider structures of the emerging popular press. Subsequent chapters cover a range of topics including the impact of the world wars, the anti-comics campaigns of the 1940s and 50s, and how changes to British publishing and wider society shaped the newspaper strips of the final decades of the twentieth century. Culminating with a discussion of the way in which strips became established within the broadsheet press from the 1960s, the book builds to provide a detailed overview of the twentieth century development of this most neglected cultural form.

Free Download Sir Keith Feiling, "British Foreign Policy 1660-1972"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138987956, 0714614734 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 0.5 mb
First Published in 1968. This study was written to provide a more modern day look at the history of British Foreign policy since 1658 and the second half of the seventeenth century. It includes investigations into the Dutch war, the choice of systems and the eve of War in 1670 to 1672.

Free Download Christian R Burset, "An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy "
English | ISBN: 0300253230 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 17 MB
A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire

Free Download C.C.H. Brazier, "XD Operations: Secret British Missions Denying Oil to the Nazis"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1844153134, 1844151360 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 2.3 mb
XD Operations is the first account of the thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a small Territorial Army Unit given the largest demolition programme ever undertaken by the Royal Engineers. These took place in May 1940 with the object of destroying all the oil reserves stored in refineries in the ports along the Continental coastline from Holland to the Bay of Biscay, thus denying the Nazis vital stocks.

Free Download With the British Cavalry in 1914 by Matthew Richardson
English | April 14, 2024 | ISBN: 1399051520 | 224 pages | MOBI | 5.66 Mb
Explores the experience of the British cavalry during the First World War from Mons to Ypres.

Free Download Lalruatkima Lalruatkima, "Wild Races: Scripturalizing Empire in British India "
English | ISBN: 1978716443 | 2024 | 220 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book analyzes the narrative dynamics of social formations in British India, using statistical and ethnographic records, visual cultures, and linguistic exercises to describe the British Empire’s production of knowledge about so-called "strange new worlds." Lalruatkima then labels these narrative dynamics as "scripturalizing" to account for the creation, or writing, of these worlds into existence. This focus underscores empire as one of many such formations imagined against the backdrop of contested conversations about what it is and what it could be. When reverse engineered, empire throws into sharp relief its constituent narrative placeholders, and the sequences of meaning-making that connect them. Power differentials between the imperial center and frontier determine the placeholders and how they fit into the larger narrative. These discursive components in turn engender the politically charged attitudes and relations within the imperial domain. Lalruatkima excavates the imperial archive for material that accounts for these narrative dynamics.

Free Download The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
English | 2 Feb. 2023 | ISBN: 1800241445, 1800241453 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 19.95 MB
The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries.

Free Download Anita Singh, "The Story of The Great British Bake Off"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1786694433 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 41.8 mb
Take one tent. Fill with 12 amateur bakers. Garnish with one venerable cookery writer, one blue-eyed bread-maker, and two comedy queens with a love of innuendo. And there you have the recipe for the most popular show of our times.