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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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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 Great War and the British Empire [PDF]
, 2016 The subject of music and the British Empire, from the end of the nineteenth century to the period after the Second World War, has been the subject of a handful of histories in the last fifteen years.
Hanna, Emma
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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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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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Ireland and the End of the British Empire: The Republic and its Role in the Cyprus Emergency
, 2020 In 1949, Ireland left the Commonwealth and the British Empire began its long fragmentation. The relationship between the new Republic of Ireland and Britain was a complex one however, and the traditional assumption that the Republic would universally ...
O'Shea, Helen
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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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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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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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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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