Further Reading (non-fiction) - The British Empire

British Empire
1815-1914
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Further Reading (non-fiction)


General Reading:
Brendon P, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 2007
Cannadine, D, Victorious Century,  2017
Cannadine, Ornamentalism, How the British saw their Empire, 2001
Cannadine, D, The Undivided Past, 2013
Darwin J, Unfinished Empire, 2012
David S, Victoria’s Wars, 2006
Ferguson N, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, 2003
Gott, R, Britain's Empire, 2011
Hopkirk, P, The Great Game, 1990
Hyam, R, Britain's Imperial Century, 1976
James L, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, 1994
Johnson R, British Imperialism, 2003
Judd, D, Empire, 1996
Kwarteng, K, Ghosts of Empire, 2011
McDonough F, The British Empire 1815-1914, 1994
Marshall P ed, British Empire, 1996
Morris J, Heaven's Command, An Imperial Progress, 1973
Porter B, The Lions's Share, 1975
Paxman J, Empire What ruling the World did for the British, 2011
Searle G.R., A New England?, 2004
Williams S, Running the Show, 2011

Africa
J. Comaroff ed, The Boer War Diary of Sol Plaatje, An African at Mafeking, 1973
David S, Zulu, 2004
Gardner B, Mafeking, 1966
Judd D and Surridge K, The Boer War, 2002
Kruger R, Goodbye Dolly Gray, 1959
March Philips L, With Rimington, 1902
M. Meredith, Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa, 2007
Nasson B, The Boer War, 2010
Nasson B, The Boer War, 2010
Pakenham T, The Scramble for Africa, 1991
Pakenham T, The Boer War, 1979
Price, R, Making Empire, Colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in c19th Africa,  2008
Roberts B, Those Bloody Women: Three Heroines of the Boer War, 1991
Sharp G, The Siege of Ladysmith, 1976

The Americas, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Bogan, H, United States of America, 1985
N. Ferguson, Colossus, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, 2004
Hall, C, Draper, D, McClelland, K, Donington,K and Lang, R, British Slave Ownership, 2014
Jones, M, The Limits of Liberty, 1992
McNaught, K, The Pelican History of Canada, 1969
Reynolds, D, America, land of Liberty, 2009
Walvin, J, The Trader, The Owner, The Slave, 2007
Walvin, J, A Short History of Slavery, 2007
Kipling
Allen, C, Kipling Sahib,  2007
Gilmour D, The Long Recessional, The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, 2002
Kipling R, The Five Nations, 1903
Kipling R, Collected Poems of, Wordsworth 1994
A.Lycett, Rudyard Kipling,  1999

India
Allen, C, Plain Tales from the Raj, 1975
Allen, C, Lives of the Indian Princes, 1984
Allen, C, Soldier Sahibs, 2000
Dalrymple W, White Mughals, 2003
Dalrymple, W, The Last Mughal, 2006
Gilmour, D, The Ruling Caste, 2005
Gilmour, D, The British In India, 2018
Hibbert C, The Great Mutiny: India 1857, 1978
James L, Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India, 1997
Mason, P, The Men who ruled India, 1985
Morrow, A, The Maharajas of India, 1998
Pemble J, ed, Miss Fane in India, 1985
M. Taylor, Empress, Queen Victoria and India,  2018

Australia/ New Zealand
King, M, History of New Zealand,  2003
Oliver, WH, The Story of New Zealand, 1960
Sinclair, K, A History of New Zealand, 1959
 
General Biography
Fisher J, That Miss Hobhouse, 1971
Judd D, Radical Joe, 1977
Kochanski H, Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1999
Lockhart, JG and Woodhouse, CM. Rhodes, 1963
Low CR, A Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley, 1878
Taylor R, Lord Salisbury, 1975
Thomas A, Rhodes: The Race for Africa, 1996
Roberts, B, Flawed Colossus, 1987
Rotberg, R, The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power, 1988

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