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The projection of Britain's 'New Empire' in Africa 1939-48 [PDF]
, 1995 The situation faced by the British Government during the Second World War demanded a total effort to fight a total war. And a cooperative effort was demanded not only by Britain and her allies, but equally of Britain in partnership with her empire ...
Morris, Catherine Jane
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Commodity culture : tropical health and hygiene in the British Empire [PDF]
, 2008 Before heading to a 'tropical' region of the Empire, British men and women spent considerable time and effort gathering outfit believed essential for their impending trip.
Johnson, Ryan
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Domesticating the Frontier: Gender, Empire and Adventure Landscapes in British Cinema, 1945-59 [PDF]
, 2003 Before 1945, films of the empire genre, produced in Hollywood as well as Britain, celebrated the masculinity of the British adventure hero, and promoted an imperial world view.
Webster, Wendy
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Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2017 As the British Empire seemed to be running out of steam by the end of the Victorian era, its main promoters tried to redefine the concepts that had led to a world-domination that had gone nearly unchallenged since the Napoleanic wars.
Flavien Bardet
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BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020 All patients operated for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to April 2018 were identified, and 246 patients were recruited to this population‐based nationwide Swedish study. The results show that longitudinal health‐related quality of life after minimally invasive oesophagectomy was similar to that of the open surgical approach.
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ABE Journal, 2019 Two Scottish architects, John Begg and George Wittet, created some of the most famous of Mumbai’s landmarks and notable buildings elsewhere in India in the early twentieth century. They were also instrumental in the development of architectural education
Sarah Longair
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Classical Histories, Colonial Objects: The Specimen Table Across Time and Space
British Art Studies, 2021 This article seeks to contextualise the production, purchase, and display of specimen tables in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considering their fragmentary forms as a material result of both British neoclassicism and imperialism.
Freya Gowrley
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Esboços, 2021 London, as the capital of the British Empire, was the centre for imperial structures and networks in the middle of the 20th century. The city enabled and regulated the transport of people, ideas and wealth. Similarly, it offered space for the development
Simeon Marty
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Sir Richard Francis Burton Reconsidered and His Travels to Slovenian Lands
Acta Neophilologica, 2018 Sir Arnold Wilson delivered a lecture before the Royal Asiatic Society on 27 May 1937 in London at 74 Grosvenor Street as the Fifth Burton Memorial Lecture.
Igor Maver
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Groundings, 2022 While the British Empire is acknowledged to have functioned from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was during the nineteenth century that its greatest expansion in terms of size, population, and wealth occurred. Dominating the nineteenth century,
Molly Finlay
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