Rule Britannia
Title | Rule Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Danny Dorling |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1785904566 |
Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain's imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.
Britannia
Title | Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Letita Coyne |
Publisher | Letitia Coyne Fiction |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2019-04-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780992285548 |
Romano-Britain historical romance.
Boudica Britannia
Title | Boudica Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317866304 |
When Roman troops threatened to seize the wealth of the Iceni people, their queen, Boudica, retaliated by inciting a major uprising, allying her tribe with the neighbouring Trinovantes. The ensuing clash is one of the most important - and dramatic - events in the history of Britain, standing testament to what can happen when an insensitive colonial power meets determined resistance from a subjugated people head-on. In this fascinating account of a legendary figure, Miranda Aldhouse-Green raises questions about female power, colonial oppression, and whether Boudica would be seen today as a freedom fighter, terrorist or martyr.
Britannia
Title | Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Sheppard S. Frere |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 1969 |
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Crude Britannia
Title | Crude Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | James Marriott |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-01-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780745341095 |
For decades, BP and Shell extracted the minerals, finance and skills of the UK. Always behind the scenes, Big Oil drove Britain's economy and profoundly influenced its culture. Then, at the start of the 21st Century, the tide seemed to go out - Britain's refineries and chemical plants were quietly closed; the North Sea oilfields declined. Now, while the country goes through the seismic upheavals of Brexit and the climate emergency, many believe the age of oil to be almost passed. However, as Crude Britannia reveals, reports of the industry's death are greatly exaggerated. Taking the reader on a journey across Britain - from North East Scotland, Merseyside and South Wales to the Thames Estuary and London - James Marriott and Terry Macalister tell the story of Britain's oil-stained past, present and future; of empire, economic deprivation and continuing political influence. The authors speak to oil company executives and oil traders, as well as former shipyard and refinery workers, film makers and musicians, activists and politicians, putting real people and places at the heart of a compelling political analysis. Offering a rare insight on how to read the history of modern Britain, Crude Britannia shows what needs to be done to create a new energy system, that tackles climate change and underpins a fairer democratic society.
Britannia's Embrace
Title | Britannia's Embrace PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Shaw |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190200995 |
On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain had become a haven for fugitives as diverse as Karl Marx and Louis Napoleon, Simón Bolívar and Frederick Douglass. How and why did the refugee category expand? How, in a period when no law forbade foreigners entry to Britain, did the refugee emerge as a category for humanitarian and political action? Why did the plight of these particular foreigners become such a characteristically British concern? Current understandings about the origins of refuge have focused on the period after 1914. Britannia's Embrace offers the first historical analysis of the origins of this modern humanitarian norm in the long nineteenth century. At a time when Britons were reshaping their own political culture, this charitable endeavor became constitutive of what it meant to be liberal on the global stage. Like British anti-slavery, its sister movement, campaigning on behalf of foreign refugees seemed to give purpose to the growing empire and the resources of empire gave it greater strength. By the dawn of the twentieth century, British efforts on behalf of persecuted foreigners declined precipitously, but its legacies in law and in modern humanitarian politics would be long-lasting. In telling this story, Britannia's Embrace puts refugee relief front and center in histories of human rights and international law and of studies of Britain in the world. In so doing, it describes the dynamic relationship between law, resources, and moral storytelling that remains critical to humanitarianism today.
Britannia's Alarm
Title | Britannia's Alarm PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gibbons |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1745 |
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