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Paradise

Abdulrazak Gurnah

1994 ★ 4.0

The sea

John Banville

2005 ★ 3.5

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

1776 ★ 4.1

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

Peter Clarke

2008

Divided Loyalties in a Doomed Empire

Daniel Royot

2007

Imperial defence and trade

F. A. Kirkpatrick

1914

The birth of Black America

Tim Hashaw

2007

The liquidation of the British Empire

Charles Carrington

1961

The Blue Sword

Robin McKinley

1982 ★ 4.1

Selected speeches and documents on British colonial policy, 1763-1917

Arthur Berriedale Keith

1918

Fate of a free people

Reynolds, Henry

2004

The race to Fashoda

David L. Lewis, Lewis, David L.

1987

The Americas in the Spanish world order

James Muldoon

1994

The King, the constitution, the Empire and foreign affairs

Arthur Berriedale Keith

1938

On the outskirts of empire in Asia

Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland

1904

The Zanzibar chest

Aidan Hartley

2003

Monsters and revolutionaries

Françoise Vergès

1999

The black man's part in the war

Harry Hamilton Johnston

1917

Wages and empire

Vyvyan Ashleigh Lyons

1920

African womanhood in colonial Kenya, 1900-50

Tabitha M. Kanogo

2005

1759

Frank McLynn

2004

The age of reconnaissance

J. H. Parry

1963

Chiefdoms under siege

Luis Fernando Calero

1997

Environment and empire

Lotte Hughes, William Beinart

2007

Life of the first Marquess of Ripon

Lucien Wolf

1921

The life and times of Robert Emmet

Richard Robert Madden

1847

Liberty's Exiles

Maya Jasanoff

2011

Empire

Jeremy Paxman

2011

Historical dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975

James Stuart Olson

1992

Observations on the manufactures, trade, and present state of Ireland

John Baker Holroyd earl of Sheffield

1785

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