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Edge of Empire
Iron tears
Shelter from the storm
DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1781-1997
Empire
Big Chief Elizabeth
Britain
The Scratch of a Pen
Diamonds, Gold, and War
Origins of the American Revolution
Britannia's Empire
Trade, Plunder and Settlement
Captives
The British Empire, 1815-1939
Prostitution, race, and politics
The tribe that lost its head
The trade relations of the British Empire
End of empire
NATURAL SCIENCE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (Empires in Perspective)
Survey of British Commonwealth affairs
The Sugar Barons
Empires of the Atlantic World
Seventeenth-century America
Empire's children
The evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth, from the American Revolution
The dual mandate in British tropical Africa
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies
Imperial Britain
Africa and the Victorians
Administrators of empire
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