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    Mungo Park’s Ghost

    Dane Kennedy

    The British sent two large expeditions to Africa in 1816, one to follow the Niger River to its outlet, the other to trace the Congo River to its source. The…

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    Britain and Empire, 1880-1945

    Dane Kennedy

    Focusing on Britain and her empire, this survey provides an introduction to the subject for the first time. Covering both the economics and politics of expansion, and the social and…

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    Britain and Empire, 1880-1945

    Dane Kennedy

    Focusing on Britain and her empire, this survey provides an introduction to the subject for the first time. Covering both the economics and politics of expansion, and the social and…

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    Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World

    This book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to recent debates about European exploration’s role in the making of the modern world. It challenges celebratory narratives of exploration, concentrating instead…

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    Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World

    This book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to recent debates about European exploration’s role in the making of the modern world. It challenges celebratory narratives of exploration, concentrating instead…

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    The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj

    Dane Kennedy

    Perched among the mountains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. This text explores the development and history of the hill stations…

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    The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj

    Dane Kennedy

    Perched among the mountains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. This text explores the development and history of the hill stations…

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    The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World

    Dane Kennedy

    Though best known as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides…

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    The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia

    Dane Kennedy

    The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and…

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    The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire

    Dane Kennedy (George Washington University, USA)

    The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of…

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    The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire

    Dane Kennedy (George Washington University, USA)

    The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of…

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    How Empire Shaped Us

    Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain’s imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the…

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    How Empire Shaped Us

    Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain’s imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the…

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    Goa, and the Blue Mountains; Or, Six Months of Sick Leave

    Richard F. Burton

    An account of the author’s journey through portions of southwest India while he was on sick leave from the British Indian army. It provides a look at the people who…

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    New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton: Orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender

    John Wallen

    Examine the ways in which this secretive men’s club both reflected and helped to create some extreme Victorian ideas about race, sex and gender which, although a background theme to…

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    Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction

    Dane Kennedy (Dr. Professor of History and International Affairs, Dr. Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University)

    This succinct and insightful account of decolonization analyses the tumultuous events that caused the shift from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after…

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