Anatomy of a Campaign: The British Fiasco in Norway, 1940 by John Kiszely

Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse

This selection of essays honours David Fieldhouse, latterly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval background at Cambridge and a best authority at the economics of the trendy British Empire. The members comprise a magnificent array of former scholars, colleagues, and associates, and their matters variety greatly around the financial and administrative fields of British imperial heritage within the 19th and 20th centuries.

A History of Drink and the English, 1500–2000 (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

This publication is an creation to the background of alcoholic drink in England from the top of the center a long time to the current day. Treating the topic thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how a lot, who produced and bought drink, the locations the place it was once loved and the meanings which ingesting had for individuals.

William Marshal

David Crouch’s William Marshal, now in its 3rd version, depicts this fascinating medieval determine as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative flesh presser and a brutal yet effective soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as Earl of Pembroke and Regent of britain, and used to be the single medieval knight to have a latest biography written approximately him.

The East India Company, 1600–1857: Essays on Anglo-Indian connection

This publication employs a variety of views to illustrate how the East India corporation facilitated cross-cultural interactions among the English and numerous teams in South Asia among 1600 to 1857 and the way those interactions remodeled vital beneficial properties of either British and South Asian heritage.