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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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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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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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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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Scottish Internationalisms at the 1938 Empire Exhibition: Between Britain, Europe, and Empire
Open Library of Humanities, 2020 The 1938 British Empire Exhibition held in Glasgow was the last of its kind, a spectacular event that celebrated the British Empire and sought to bring global attention to Scotland.
alexandra peat
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Halting the 'sad degenerationist parade': medical concerns about heredity and racial degeneracy in New Zealand psychiatry, 1853-99. [PDF]
, 2012 Historians have focused on early twentieth-century positive eugenics in New Zealand. In this article, I argue that the response came from a tradition of concern about heredity and white racial degeneracy, which extended beyond the British Empire.
Dawson, Mark
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The Second Epoch: Liberal Imperialism and Decolonization. 1846-1974. [PDF]
, 1998 The costs and benefits of European Imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty of Lusaka, 1974.Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid, 1998.Patrick K.
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Palestine and the British Empire in US Political Cartoons, 1917-1919
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022 The article is devoted to the analysis of the process of formation of the image of Palestine and the British Empire at the end of the First World War. On the basis of the materials of American cartoons and periodicals, the main points in the evolution of
Sergei O. Buranok
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The Crimea as Viewed by British Adventurer William Eton
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2020 Research objective: This paper analyses the account of the Crimea supplied in a little-known source written by British adventurer, William Eton, who visited this peninsula in the period of an independent Crimean Khanate and used extremely interesting ...
Khrapunov N.I.
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(REHABILITATING HERITAGE PLACES) STRUCTURAL REPAIRS AND CONSERVATION WORKS FOR ASTOR KOLKATA, INDIA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta in English, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly.
S. Dasgupta, L. Fournier
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