Ballhatchet, Kenneth. SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN WESTERN INDIA 1817-1830 | £24.00 | |||||
335pp. Index. Portrait of Elphinstone as frontispiece. 1 folding and 1 other map. The integration of the Peshwa's territory into British India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1957 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Bell, Sydney Smith. COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION OF GREAT BRITAIN. | £12.00 | |||||
470pp. Facsimile of 1859 original. Fine. 1970 New edition, Kelley, New York. | ||||||
Betts, Raymond F. UNCERTAIN DIMENSIONS. | £5.00 | |||||
Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth Century. 263pp. Index. Card covers. Fine. 1985 Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Brooks, Richard. THE LONG ARM OF EMPIRE. | £12.00 | |||||
Naval Brigades from the Crimea to the Boxer Rebellion. 330pp. Index. 7 b/w maps. 28 b/w illustrations. Includes service in the Indian Mutiny, Burma and China. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Constable. | ||||||
Brown, Judith M and Louis, Wm Roger (edit). THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. | £5.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV. 773pp. Index. 28 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1999 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Brown, Judith M and Louis, Wm Roger (edit). THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. | £21.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume IV. 773pp. Index. 28 essays by leading academic authorities. Very good indeed in like dw. 1999 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Canny, Nicholas (edits). THE ORIGINS OF EMPIRE. | £5.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I. 533pp. Index. 21 essays by leading academic authorities. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Canny, Nicholas (edits). THE ORIGINS OF EMPIRE. | £18.00 | |||||
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I. 533pp. Index. 21 essays by leading academic authorities. Very good indeed in like dw. Owner's name (in red ink). 1998 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Carrington, C.E. THE BRITISH OVERSEAS. | £21.00 | |||||
Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. 1092pp. Index. 32 plates and 42 maps. Much on India, Burma, Ceylon etc. Very good. Spine rubbed. 1950 First edition, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Chapple, J.A.V. DOCUMENTARY AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE 1880-1920. | £5.00 | |||||
History and Literature. 395pp. Index. Chapters on 'The Imperial Theme' and 'Critics of Imperialism'. Many references to Kipling. Fine in fine dw. 1970 First edition, Blandford Press. | ||||||
Collis, Maurice. TRIALS IN BURMA. | £10.00 | |||||
239pp. Index. First published in 1938. Powerful account of his experiences as Deputy Magistrate of Rangoon trying politically sensitive cases in 1930. The tensions between justice and empire. Ex-public library copy in the original binding. Two pages are misbound but all are present. Very good. 1953 New edition, Faber. | ||||||
David, Saul. VICTORIA'S WARS. | £10.00 | |||||
The Rise of Empire. 503pp. Index. 53 b/w illustrations and 16 maps. Imperial expansion between 1837 and 1861. Much on Afghanistan, Sikh Wars, Burma and the Mutiny. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2006 First edition, Viking. | ||||||
Dewey, Clive J. (edits). THE STATE AND THE MARKET. | £10.00 | |||||
Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Third World. 355pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1987 First, Riverdale Company, Maryland. | ||||||
Drummond, Ian M. BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY AND THE EMPIRE 1919-1939. | £10.00 | |||||
241pp. Index. Ex-public library copy with minimal markings. Very good in very good dw. 1972 First, Allen & Unwin. | ||||||
Faber, Richard. THE VISION AND THE NEED. | £13.00 | |||||
Late Victorian Imperialist Aims. 150pp. Index. Frontispiece is a Beerbohm caricature of Kipling. One section is devoted to Kipling. Fine in fine dw. Bookplate. 1966 First, Faber. | ||||||
Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. | £10.00 | |||||
394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good in slightly loose dustwrapper. 1973 First edition, Allen Lane. | ||||||
Farwell, Byron. QUEEN VICTORIA'S LITTLE WARS. | £5.00 | |||||
394pp. Index. 34 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Very good indeed in fine dw. 1973 History Bookclub. | ||||||
Gilmour, David. THE RULING CASTE. | £14.00 | |||||
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. 383pp. 26 b/w photographs. A study of the ICS. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 2005 First edition, John Murray. | ||||||
Greenberger, Allen J. THE BRITISH IMAGE OF INDIA. | £14.00 | |||||
A Study in the Literature of Imperialism. 234pp. Index. Changing attitudes reflected in the fiction of British India. Fine in very good dustwrapper. 1969 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Hernon, Ian. MASSACRE AND RETRIBUTION. | £10.00 | |||||
Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century. 208pp. Index. Illustrated in b/w. Fine hardback in fine dustwrapper, As new. 1998 First edition, Sutton Publishing. | ||||||
Hyam, Ronald. EMPIRE AND SEXUALITY. | £20.00 | |||||
The British Experience. 234pp. Index. The sexual attitudes and activities of the men who ran the Empire. Card covers. Fine. 2004 Manchester University Press. | ||||||
James, Lawrence. RAJ. | £12.00 | |||||
The Making and Unmaking of British India. 722pp. Index. 8 maps. 59 illustrations. Fine in fine dw. 1998 St Martin's Press, New York. | ||||||
Jasanoff, Maya. EDGE OF EMPIRE. | £12.00 | |||||
Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850. 504pp. Index. 49 b/w illustrations. A brilliant analysis of cross-cultural lives in India and Egypt. Much on Lucknow and Seringapatam. Fine in fine dw. 2005 First edition, Knopf, New York. | ||||||
Jasanoff, Maya. LIBERTY'S EXILES. | £12.00 | |||||
The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire. 461pp. Index. Illustrations in colour and b/w. 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 2011 First edition, Harper Press. | ||||||
Lipton, Michael and Firn, John. THE EROSION OF A RELATIONSHIP. | £13.00 | |||||
India and Britain since 1960. 427pp. Index. Ex-college library. Published for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Very good in very good dw. 1975 First edition, Oxford University Press. | ||||||
Low, D.A. ECLIPSE OF EMPIRE. | £16.00 | |||||
375pp. Index. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First, Cambridge University Press. | ||||||
Lowe, C.J. THE RELUCTANT IMPERIALISTS. | £16.00 | |||||
In 2 vols. 261 and 139pp. Vol 1: British Foreign Policy 1878-1902. Vol 2: The Documents. Fine in very good dws. 1967 First edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul. | ||||||
Moore, R.J. LIBERALISM AND INDIAN POLITICS 1872-1922. | £12.00 | |||||
136pp. Index. Fine in near-fine dw. 1966 First edition, Edward Arnold. | ||||||
Rich, P.J. THE ELIXIR OF EMPIRE. | £12.00 | |||||
The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism. 152pp. Index. Fine in fine dustwrapper. 1989 First edition, Regency Press. | ||||||
Smith, Alison et al (edit). ARTIST AND EMPIRE | £14.00 | |||||
256pp. 4to. Index. Card covers. Profusely illustrated catalogue of 2015 exhibition. Fine. 2015 Tate Publishing. | ||||||
Steevens, G.W. WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM. | £18.00 | |||||
. 326pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue. 8 maps. In the original blue decorated cloth. Account of campaign by embedded journalist. Very good indeed. A bright, clean copy. Owners' inscriptions on endpaper from 1898 and 1966 1898 Second edition, Wm.Blackwood | ||||||
Woodcock, George. THE BRITISH IN THE FAR EAST. | £16.00 | |||||
A Social History of the British Overseas. 259pp. Index. 155 b/w illustations, mainly period photographs. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 1969 First edition , Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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