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Britain’s decision to withdraw from the Persian Gulf: a pattern not a puzzle [PDF]
, 2015 The reasons for the British decision to withdraw from the Gulf are highly contentious. While some scholars have focused on short-term considerations, especially the devaluation of sterling towards the end of 1967, in the British determination to quit the
Smith, Simon C.
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CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2018 These two little known films are both part of the cycle of post-imperial films dealing with the decline of the British Empire. They are perhaps the only films set in or near the historical period of the British Military Administration of Libya after 1945.
Richard Andrew Voeltz
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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.
F. Klevebro +4 more
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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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The Chagos Islands cases: the empire strikes back [PDF]
, 2015 Good governance requires the accommodation of multiple interests in the cause of decision making. However, undue regard for particular sectional interests can take their toll upon public faith in government administration. Historically, broad conceptions
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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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Empire, Spectacle and the Patriot King: British Responses to Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire [PDF]
, 2017 The article was submitted on 11.05.2016.Обращаясь к описаниям представлений, устраиваемых русскими царями, в трудах британских путешественников, автор показывает противоречивый характер британского взгляда на Российскую империю XVIII в.
Binney, M.
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