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[be_themoon]

oh beloved f-list! please to be reccing nonfiction books on the British Empire? any portion of it!

also: oh yeah I've got a dreamwidth account I can crosspost from. DUH.

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[bedlamsbard]

Lawrence James has written a number of books on the subject (link goes to Amazon author page); I actually own two of them, but I've never read them. (Bad Bedlam, I know.) Specifically on the British Army, the ones I can think of either off the top of my head or have in eyesight are Wellington's Rifles (which is more about the Rifle Regiments in the Napoleonic Wars than about the empire), and a number of Richard Holmes' books.

As far as primary sources go from the period, there's Rudyard Kipling, of course (love Kipling, especially his poetry), and Imperialism: A Study (J.A. Hobson) and A View of the Art of Colonization (Edward Gibbon Wakefield; this and the Hobson are both sort of debates on the subject of imperialism and colonialism; I did a paper on this last year! Thus the obscure sources). This is specifically relevant to the Victorian Age.

[be_themoon]

yay! thank you loads, I'm going to be looking these up.

[sgrio.livejournal.com]

Spies In Arabia by Priya Satia

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

ooh, thank you! that looks fascinating. :D

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

your dw name is...?

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

same as here. :D

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

Aaaand apparently you're on my flist there. Whaddya know.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

:D

I think I added you waaaay back when I first got a Dreamwidth.

[animus-wyrmis.livejournal.com]

I really like Alison Weir for a lot of Tudor-era stuff, which I guess is sort of early for empire. But! She is wicked awesome.

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

hee. Yeah, that probably won't work with what I need, but I'll have to look her up and read her sometime!