Query: Books about the British Empire, excluding the information about British India.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Invasion of Canada
Forgotten War (book)
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
The British Empire: A survey
Africa and the Victorians
The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World
Imperial Reckoning
Profiles in Folly
Ornamentalism
The Other Side of the Frontier
The Expansion of England
Evidence from documents: The Invasion of Canada: The book is an account of the first year of the War of 1812 and the events leading up to it.
Forgotten War (book): a 2013 book by Australian historian Henry Reynolds concerning the Australian frontier wars, a conflict between the British Empire and settlers on one side and Indigenous Australians on the other.
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire: '''''Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire''''' is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton under the title ''Outposts'' and in the United States by Prentice Hall as ''The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire''.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: '''''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples''''' is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the end of the Second Boer War (1902). It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956–1958, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. The volumes have been abridged into a single-volume, concise edition.
The British Empire: A survey: '''''The British Empire: A survey''''' is a series of twelve books, each self-contained, published for educational purposes during the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, London, by Collins in 1924, following the request of the Exhibition's management towards the Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute to create this work.
Africa and the Victorians: '''''Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism''''' is a 1961 book by Ronald Robinson and John Andrew Gallagher, with contributions from Robinson's wife, Alice Denny. The book argues that British involvement in the Scramble for Africa occurred largely to secure its empire, specifically routes to India and was a strategic decision.
The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World: In the work the author argues that many of the world's problems were caused by the British Empire and also criticises British culture.
Imperial Reckoning: The book describes how, after Operation Anvil, the British colonial government in Kenya turned increasingly to mass detention as a means to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising.
Ornamentalism: '''''Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire''''' is a book by David Cannadine about British perceptions of the British Empire.
The Other Side of the Frontier: '''''The Other Side of the Frontier''''' is a history book published in 1981 by Australian historian Henry Reynolds. It is a study of Aboriginal Australian resistance to the British settlement, or invasion, of Australia from 1788 onwards.
The Expansion of England: Books about the British Empire, excluding the information about British India.: '''''The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures''''' is a book by English historian John Robert Seeley about the growth of the British Empire, first published in 1883. Seeley argued that the British expansion was based on its defeat of Louis XIV's France in the 18th century, and that the Dominions were critical to English power. He also stated that holding onto India might not be beneficial to England in the long run. The book was a popular success and received a strongly positive response from British politicians and nobility, and several historians have stated that it had great impact upon British thinking.