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.
Ruled Britannia
Title | Ruled Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Turtledove |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 2002-11-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101212519 |
The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew—and in fear of the Inquisition’s agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no symbol to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land. William Shakespeare has no interest in politics. His passion is writing for the theatre, where his words bring laughter and tears to a populace afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the Spanish crown. But now Shakespeare is given an opportunity to pen his greatest work—a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors—and change the course of history.
Rule Britannia
Title | Rule Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne du Maurier |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Last Imperialist
Title | The Last Imperialist PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Gilley |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2021-09-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1684512174 |
"The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--
Rule Britannia
Title | Rule Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne du Maurier |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2013-12-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316253006 |
Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor. As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their heritage. In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States. "A diverse and engrossing cast of characters...provocative, diverting."-Chicago Tribune
Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games
Title | Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew P. Llewellyn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317979761 |
On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.
Rule Britannia
Title | Rule Britannia PDF eBook |
Author | Deirdre David |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501723677 |
Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation. David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad. Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire—such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire.