The story-time of the British empire : colonial and postcolonial folkloristics / by Naithani, Sadhana

Table of Contents: “…The Story-Time of the British Empire: Transnational Folkloristics as Theory of Cultural Disjunctions.…”
CONNECT

The story-time of the British empire : colonial and postcolonial folkloristics / by Naithani, Sadhana

The story-time of the British empire : colonial and postcolonial folkloristics / by Naithani, Sadhana

CONNECT

Imperial ecology : environmental order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 / by Anker, Peder

CONNECT

Decolonising geography? : disciplinary histories and the end of the British empire in Africa, 1948-1998 / by Craggs, Ruth, Neate, Hannah

CONNECT

Environment and empire / by Beinart, William, Hughes, Lotte

“…Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.…”
CONNECT

National healths : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context /

Table of Contents: “…Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire /…”
CONNECT

Making history, drawing territory : British mapping in India, c.1756-1905 / by Barrow, Ian J.

A history of the world in 6 glasses / by Standage, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Stone-age brew -- Civilized beer -- Wine in Greece and Rome: The delight of wine -- The imperial vine -- Spirits in the colonial period: High spirits, high seas -- The drinks that built America -- Coffee in the age of reason: the great soberer -- The coffeehouse internet -- Tea and the British Empire: Empires of tea -- Tea power -- Coca-cola and the rise of America: From soda to cola -- Globalization in a bottle.…”

Germs, seeds & animals : studies in ecological history / by Crosby, Alfred W.

Table of Contents: “…The Columbian voyages, the Columbian exchange, and their historians -- Ecological Imperialism: the overseas migration of Western Europeans as a biological phenomenon -- The biological metamorphosis of the Americas -- The British Empire as a product of continental drift -- Infectious disease and the demography of the Atlantic peoples -- Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the Aboriginal depopulation of America -- "God ... would destroy them, and give their country to another people ..." -- Hawaiian depopulation as a model for the Amerindian experience -- The demographic effect of American crops in Europe -- Demography, maize, land, and the American character -- Reassessing 1492 -- Life (with all its problems) in space.…”

The trivia lover's guide to even more of the world : geography for the global generation / by Fuller, Gary, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Geographic ignorance still prevails -- Why can my students find Australia on a map -- Place names: pronunciations and translations -- Borders and boundaries -- Islands -- Battles -- Airports -- The British Empire -- Missionaries: agents of geographical change -- Nearest neighbors -- Explorers rescued from oblivion -- Diseases -- Population density -- Fleets -- Spice-seekers -- Principal (rare) products -- Pirates -- Imaginary/mythical/legendary places -- Deep in the heart of -- World population -- Other populations -- Dangerous watery places -- Forced migration -- Forbidden places -- Earthquakes and tsunamis -- Extreme points -- Minerals and mines -- Landscapes of fear.…”
CONNECT

Exporting Jim Crow : Blackface minstrelsy in South Africa and beyond / by Thelwell, Chinua

Table of Contents: “…Burnt Cork Nationalism and the Five Waves of Minstrel Globalization -- Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and Across the British Empire, 1830-1862 -- An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Pre-Industrial South Africa, 1862-1872 -- Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows During the South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889 -- "Slipping the Yoke": McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898 -- Brown-on-Black Masquerade: Cape Town's Coon Carnival -- Afterword. …”
CONNECT

Exporting Jim Crow : Blackface minstrelsy in South Africa and beyond / by Thelwell, Chinua

Table of Contents: “…Burnt Cork Nationalism and the Five Waves of Minstrel Globalization -- Foundations: Blackface Minstrelsy in the United States and Across the British Empire, 1830-1862 -- An Empire of Burnt Cork: Blackface Minstrelsy in Pre-Industrial South Africa, 1862-1872 -- Diamonds, Dandies, and Dispossession: Minstrel Shows During the South African Mineral Revolution, 1872-1889 -- "Slipping the Yoke": McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics, 1890-1898 -- Brown-on-Black Masquerade: Cape Town's Coon Carnival -- Afterword. …”
CONNECT
CONNECT
CONNECT

A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / by Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-

A thirst for empire : how tea shaped the modern world / by Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-

CONNECT

Thirst for Empire. by Rappaport, Erika Diane, 1963-

CONNECT

Imperial ascent : mountaineering, masculinity, and empire / by Bayers, Peter L., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…4: Resurrecting Heroes: Sir Francis Younghusband's The Epic of Mount Everest (1926) and Post-Great War Britain -- 5: Sir John Hunt's The Ascent of Everest (1953) and Nostalgia for the British Empire -- 6: No Longer Sahibs: Tenzing Norgay and the 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest -- 7: Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air (1997), Postmodern Adventurous Masculinity, and Imperialism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
CONNECT

Historicizing humans : deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences /

CONNECT
CONNECT
CONNECT

Eat history : food and drink in Australia and beyond /

CONNECT

Losing the Empress : a personal journey : the Empress of Ireland's enduring shadow / by Creighton, David

CONNECT