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Churchill and Empire - Portrait of an Imperialist by Lawrence James
30.00 NZD
Category: History
One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the SUNDAY TIMES and LITERARY REVIEW, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army of ...Show more
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa by Lawrence James
28.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. The continent was a magnet for the high-minded, the ph ...Show more
RAJ : THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF BRITISH INDIA by Lawrence James
40.00 NZD
48.99 (18% off)
Category: Non-fiction
This is an account of British rule in India. It is the remarkable story of how the British made themselves masters of the subcontinent in less than a century, and then ruled it for a further century before departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. British rule taugh ...Show more
The Golden Warrior by Lawrence James
30.00 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
Controversial and provocative, this revised and updated edition of Lawrence James' acclaimed biography penetrates and overturns the mythology that surrounds T. E. Lawrence, yet remains dispassionate and generous in spirit throughout. It presents a fascinating study of one of the twentieth century's most ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing eyewitness quotation to provide keen insight into the minds of those involved in conquering, settling and ruling th ...Show more
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