The great defiance : how the world took on the British Empire
Veevers, David2024
Book
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. 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.
Main title:
The great defiance : how the world took on the British Empire / David Veevers.
Author:
Veevers, David, author
Imprint:
London : Ebury Press, 2024.
Collation:
viii, 502 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529109962 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941941 VEE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3790564