Ten Cities that Made an Empire

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3410793Ten Cities that Made an Empirehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/ten-cities-that-made-an-empire-9780141957531/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2985593/7fe57af1-1a4d-4f04-a5af-bda4d50910ba.jpg?v=638384723495200000240282MXNPenguin Books LtdInStock/Ebooks/From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britains imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool.Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as very good or very bad, Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to chart the processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively shaped the colonial experience - and, in turn, transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles.TRISTRAM HUNT is one of Britains best known historians. Since 2010 he has been the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. He is also a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian and Observer. His previous books include The English Civil War at First Hand, Building Jerusalem, and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, which was published in more than a dozen languages.Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist:Beautifully written and consistently engaging - IndependentAn excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture and European political thought - Robert Service, Sunday TimesThoughtful and engaging - Telegraph Review...3346667Ten Cities that Made an Empire240282https://www.gandhi.com.mx/ten-cities-that-made-an-empire-9780141957531/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2985593/7fe57af1-1a4d-4f04-a5af-bda4d50910ba.jpg?v=638384723495200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20149780141957531_W3siaWQiOiIyMTk5Y2VkYi01ZGM1LTQ2ZTctOTEwNi1lODI3OWE4MTg4YzEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI4NiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjQzLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI0MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780141957531_From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britains imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool.Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as very good or very bad, Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to chart the processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively shaped the colonial experience - and, in turn, transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles.TRISTRAM HUNT is one of Britains best known historians. Since 2010 he has been the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. He is also a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian and Observer. His previous books include The English Civil War at First Hand, Building Jerusalem, and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, which was published in more than a dozen languages.Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist:Beautifully written and consistently engaging - IndependentAn excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture and European political thought - Robert Service, Sunday TimesThoughtful and engaging - Telegraph Review(*_*)9780141957531_From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britains imperial past through the cities that epitomised itThe final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool.Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as very good or very bad, Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to chart the processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively shaped the colonial experience - and, in turn, transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles.TRISTRAM HUNT is one of Britains best known historians. Since 2010 he has been the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. He is also a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian and Observer. His previous books include The English Civil War at First Hand, Building Jerusalem, and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, which was published in more than a dozen languages.Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist:Beautifully written and consistently engaging - IndependentAn excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture and European political thought - Robert Service, Sunday TimesThoughtful and engaging - Telegraph Review...9780141957531_Penguin Books Ltdlibro_electonico_4f040117-caae-390f-ac05-a6ec8549e275_9780141957531;9780141957531_9780141957531Tristram HuntInglésMéxico2014-06-05T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Books Ltd