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Lord Churchill's Coup the Anglo-American Empire and The Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
by Webb, Stephen Saunders
THE BOXER REBELLION
by Henry Keown-Boyd
NY: Dorset Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 276p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Illustrated account of the uprising of Chinese rebels against foreigners in China. Originally published in Great Britain under the title THE FISTS OF RIGHTEOUS HARMONY.
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A$27.11
The British Raj
by Judd, Denis
Hove, UK: Wayland, 1987 2nd ptg. 128pp. illus. hardback 8vo in pictorial boards: Fine/no dj [small price sticker remnant on pastedown; touch of ffep foxing; else a very nice clean and crisp copy] An attractive illustrated primer on the subject, a title in The Documentary History Series originally published in 1972.
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A$7.73
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
by James, Lawrence
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 book club ed. 722pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of edge foxing; long gift presentation inscription on ffep; else a very nice clean and crisp copy]
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A$15.42
BLOOD ON THE SHAMROCK: An American Ponders Northern Ireland 1968-1990
by Mark J. Hurley
New York: Peter Lang, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 384p. A green hardcover book in fine condition, but without a dustjacket. American University Studies Series IX: History, volume 91.
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A$23.24
The Savage Wars of Peace: Soldiers' Voices 1945-1989
by Allen, Charles
London: Michael Joseph, 1990 1st ed. 290pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some age foxing to top & fore edges; thin rem. line bottom edge; else a nice clean and crisp copy] Fascinating oral history featuring interviews with British soldiers beginning with colonial wars in Malaya and Borneo after World War II and moving on to Kenya, Cyprus and Suez, Southern Arabia and Oman and, finally, Northern Ireland.
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A$54.23
WAR MEDALS OF THE BRITISH ARMY 1650-1891
by Thomas Carter and W.H. Long
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1972. Hardcover. 656p. A light brown cloth hardcover book in fine condition without a dustjacket. A reprint of the 1893 edition.
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A$46.48
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
by Lawrence James
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 704p. A green cloth hardcover book in near-fine condition, lacking the dustjacket. Owner's stamps inside, but otherwise practically like new. Contains three sections of black and white illustrations.
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A$30.99
World's End: British Military Outposts in the Ring Fence Around Australia 1824-1849
by Powell, Alan
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2018. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 277 pages. Tells of Britain's ultimately successful attempts to ensure that the whole of Australia belonged to the home county. Between 1824 and 1849 British officialdom planted five strategically placed, small military outposts on the vast continental coastline. An award-winning historian's fine...
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A$44.00
Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India
by Singh, Amar edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota
Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2002 1st ed. 633pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [rem. line bottom edge; else nrF; dj = black marker check mark on back cover; else F] A remarkable diary kept for 44 years, from 1898 until his death, by a Rajput nobleman Amar Singh (1878-1942). Jacket praise from John Kenneth Galbraith, et al.
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A$38.74
Around Australia
by Barrett, Charles
Melbourne: Cassell, 1942 1st ed. 163pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Good/no dj [foxing and age browning of endpp. & edges; corners bumped; else a clean, complete & tight copy] Australia as seen at the beginning of the Second World War. Printed on high quality paper with photographic illustrations.
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A$23.24
The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 1850-1983 (2nd edition)
by Porter, Bernard
London/NY: Longman, 1986 reprint. 418pp. paperback 8vo: Good [minimal amount of underlining or highlighting in text; else a complete & tight copy] A brief, readable history of a vast subject.
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A$7.73
THE GREAT INDIAN MUTINY: A Dramatic Account of the Sepoy Rebellion
by Richard Collier
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 384p. A black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Cover a bit rubbed; portion of dustjacket glued to back endpaper; otherwise clean and tight. Account of the rebellion of Indian troops against their British officers which precipitated a sequence of struggles and sieges. Includes black and white photographs. Published in England under the title THE SOUND OF FURY.
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A$23.24
ANNE NEVILLE: Queen to Richard III
by Michael Hicks
Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing Limited, 2006. Hardcover. 254p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. The text is clean and the binding tight. A biography of Anne Neville and her tumultuous relationship to Richard III. Illustrated with black and white pictures.
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A$54.23
Atlas of the British Empire
by Bayly, Dr Christopher (General Editor)
New York: Facts on File, Inc. 1989. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small remainder mark to base. A very nice copy. Illustrated with many colour and black & white plates and 39 full-page colour maps. Introduction by Professor Norman Stone. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. Charts the rise and fall of British dominance in world...
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A$25.00
THE CONVICT SETTLERS OF AUSTRALIA: An Equiry into the Origin and Character of the Convicts Transported to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1787-1852
by L.L. Robson
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 257p. Ex-library. A brown cloth hardcover book in good reading condition. Uneven fading on spine and boards. Edges of spine are wearing through, but binding remains tight. Label on spine; stamps and labels inside. Text is clean.
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A$38.74
The Horizon History of the British Empire
by Sears, Stephen W., editor
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. 1973. 511pp. illus. hardback 4to: Very Good+ in a tape-patched dust jacket. A colorful coffee table volume on the subject.
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A$38.74
Lancer at Large
by Yeats-Brown, Francis
New York: Garden City Publishing Co. 1939 reissue. 323pp. illus. red cloth 8vo: near Fine in a Good+ dj in poly cover [ink name; bookplate; else nrF] A follow-on to Major Yeats-Brown's (1886-1944) "Lives of a Bengal Lancer."
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A$15.42
Honours and Rewards in the British Empire and Commonwealth ... Volume 2 The Empire and the Commonwealth
by Pamm, Anthony
England: Scolar Press, 1995. First Edition. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. xii, [897]-1657 pages. 4to. Publisher's boards. Blue and yellow printed dust jacket (rubbed, several small tears). Binding sound, bright and clean internally. Boards. A two volume reference work that "records the history of the thousands of honours and rewards, official and unofficial, that have been awarded to individuals in the British Empire and Commonwealth from the eleventh century until the 1990s." Volume Two...
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A$162.69
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER: People and Events 1839-1947
by Arthur Swinson
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 354p. A tan cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Corner of front free endpaper is clipped off; otherwise clean and tight. History of British activity in northwestern India. Includes three sections of black and white photographs.
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A$30.99
FORCES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1914
by Edward M. Nevins
Arlington, VA: Vandamere Press, 1992. Hardcover. 288p. A large hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. Measures approx. 11.25" x 9
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A$30.99
ARMIES OF THE RAJ from the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947
by Byron Farwell
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Paperback. 399p. A softcover book in fine condition, except for slightly sticky price sticker residue on the back cover. Text clean and binding tight.
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A$23.24
Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921-1952
by Chaudhuri, Nirad C
Reading, Massachussets: Addison Wesley Publishing Co.. 1989. Very Good condition. Spine very lightly sunned. 979 pages. The author's own story but within the framework of the larger story of India's drive towards Independence with incisive and iconoclastic portraits of Gandhi, Nehru, Mountbatten and Churchill. The author was regarded as an admirable historian and one of the best Indian writers of non-fiction. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback...
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A$24.00
JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge; and Chaplain to the Honorable East India Company
by Rev. Henry Martyn; Rev. S. Wilberforce, ed
New York: M.W. Dodd, 1851. First American Edition, Abridged. Hardcover. Fair. 466p. A hardcover book in accepable condition. The edges are heavily worn, especially along the back edge of the spine. The head and foot of the spine are worn down. Smudges and light soiling all over cloth. Early owner's inscription on front endpaper, dated 1871. Heavy foxing throughout, but text otherwise unmarked, and binding tight. Rev. Martyn was an Evangelical minister with the British East Indian Company...
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A$54.23
Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend
by Warner, Philip
New York: Atheneum. 1986 1st Am. ed. 247pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A popular biography of the British general Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome (1850-1916), Conquer of of the Sudan.
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A$15.42
