The great defiance : (Record no. 344496)

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fixed length control field 02023nam a22002055i 4500
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fixed length control field 230106s2023 enkabf b 000 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781529913644
Terms of availability £16.99
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Source of number CC
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Veevers, David,
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The great defiance :
Remainder of title how the world took on the British Empire /
Statement of responsibility, etc David Veevers.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Ebury Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2023.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nation imposing its will upon the world, the British Empire found itself reshaped by the tenacious resistance of the powerful Indigenous and non-European people it encountered. From ill-advised ventures in Ireland to the failure to curtail North African Corsair states all the way to the collapse of commercial operations in East Asia, British attempts to create an imperial enterprise often ended in embarrassment and even disaster.<br/><br/>In this book, David Veevers looks beyond the myths of triumph and into the realities of British misadventures in the early days of Empire, meeting the extraordinary people across the world who were the real forces to be reckoned with. From the Emperors who determined the expansion of the English East India Company, to the West African kings who resisted English entreaties and set the terms of the lucrative slave trade, to the Paramount Chiefs in America who fought to expunge European forces from their homelands, The Great Defiance retells the story of early Empire from the perspective of the Indigenous and non-European people who held the fate of the British in their hands.
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Uncontrolled term Great Britain-History
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Uncontrolled term Renaissance-History
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Great Britain-Foreign Economic Relations
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        English Main Library Main Library 17/10/2024 941.04 VEE/G 514473 24/12/2024 799.00 Lending

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