Further Reading

General Reading:

Porter B, The Lions's Share, 1975

Paxman J, Empire What ruling the World did for the British, 2011

Marshall P ed, British Empire, 1996

Morris J, Heaven's Command, An Imperial Progress, 1973

James L, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, 1994

Brendon p, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 2007

Ferguson N, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, 2003

Searle G.R., A New England? 2004

Darwin J, Unfinished Empire, 2012

David S, Victoria’s Wars, 2006

Johnson R, British Imperialism, 2003

McDonough F, The British Empire 1815-1914, 1994

Williams S, Running the Show, 2011

Africa

Pakenham T, The Scramble for Africa, 1991

Pakenham T, The Boer War, 1979

Kruger R, Goodbye Dolly Gray, 1959

Judd D and Surridge K, The Boer War, 2002

Nasson B, The Boer War, 2010

David S, Zulu, 2004

The Boer War Diary of Sol Plaatje, ed J. Comaroff, An African at Mafeking, 1973

Gardner B, Mafeking, 1966

Roberts B, Those Bloody Women: Three Heroines of the Boer War, 1991

March Philips L, With Rimington, 1902

Sharp G, The Siege of Ladysmith, 1976

Kipling

Gilmour D, The Long Recessional, The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, 2002

Kipling R, The Five Nations, 1903

Kipling R, Collected Poems of, Wordsworth 1994

India

James L, Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India, 1997

Hibbert C, The Great Mutiny: India 1857, 1978

Pemble J, ed, Miss Fane in India, 1985

Dalrymple W, White Mughals, 2003

Dalrymple W, The Last Mughal, 2006

General Biography

Fisher J, That Miss Hobhouse, 1971

Kochanski H, Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1999

Judd D, Radical Joe, 1977

Taylor R, Lord Salisbury, 1975

Low CR, A Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley, 1878

Thomas A, Rhodes: The Race for Africa, 1996

Further Reading: non-fiction

The books in the reading lists below are not intended to be an exhaustive list but merely represent those that I have used in my own studies of the British Empire. I would welcome any suggestions of books that could be sdded to this list.

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Why Study the Empire?Outline History of the British Empire North Laine Walk1 Development of North Laine part 2 Key Features of the 19th century British Empire

Outline History part 2

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Historians' views of the British Empire What was the legacy of the British Empire?What was the British Raj?Why did Britain go to war with Germany in August 1914?What was New Imperialism?Should the British government pay compensation for those who were victims of Imperialism?Should the Rhodes' Statue at Oriel College, Oxford be taken down?What was the role of Sport in the British Empire?What was the nature of the British Empire?How was the British Empire run?How important was trade in the 19th century British Empire?What was the ideology of the 19th century British Empire?What was the Motivation for the 19th century British Empire?How important was Migration to the British Empire?Great Game

Why did Britain go to war against Germany, part 2

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Yorktown 1781 The 1788 Fleet The Indian Rebellion The Ashanti War The Opening of the Suez Canal The Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand The Jameson Raid Abolition of Slavery Canada Treaty of Waitangi Free Trade Transvaal 1877-1881 The Amritsar Massacre

How important was violence to the 19th century British Empire?What were the main causes of the Indian Rebellion?What were the main causes and events of the Boer War?The Jamaican Rebellion The Opium Wars The Matabele Maori resistance Boer War section Aborigine resistance in Australia Burmese Wars The Red River Campaign The Asante War of 1873-4

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earlyhistory Creation of the Boer Republics 1867-1895 The Road to War Countdown to War in October 1899 Opening Moves Black Week Sieges Spion Kop The Tide Turns March to Pretoria The Guerrilla Campaign Kitchener's War Peace

Emily Hobhouse part 2

Kipling's Imperialism part 2

Salisbury's Imperial Policy part 2

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