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. | ||||||
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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