Eminent Elizabethans (Storpocket)
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ISBN: 9780099532637 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09*Margaret Thatcher - the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of post-war British politics *Rupert Murdoch - the billionaire media mogul whose empire, built on an ethical void, has polluted the channels of communication from London to Sydney, f[...]
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780307388414 - UTGIVEN: 201002After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting[...]
The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780375708084 - UTGIVEN: 200201A panoramic study of a pivotal decade in twentieth-century history explores a time dominated by the Great Depression, political unrest, social upheaval, repression, and the coming of World War II; profiles the key figures of the era--Hitler, Roosevelt, Mao, Stalin, and Franco, among others--and the [...]
Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780712668460 - UTGIVEN: 2008-10No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more swif[...]
