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The Levantine British: Defying Imperial Race Categories in Colonial Alexandria 黎凡特不列颠人:在亚历山大殖民地反抗帝国种族分类

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2019-02-13 DOI: 10.3366/BRW.2019.0312

James Whidden

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Andrew C. Rath, The Crimean War in Imperial Context, 1854–1856 Andrew C. Rath，帝国背景下的克里米亚战争，1854-1856

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2019-02-13 DOI: 10.3366/BRW.2019.0315

David Brown

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IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/brw.2018.0295

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IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/brw.2018.0307

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Michelle Tusan, The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill 《大英帝国与亚美尼亚种族灭绝:从格莱斯顿到丘吉尔的人道主义与帝国政治

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/brw.2018.0303

Leslie Rogne Schumacher

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Imperial Networks 帝国网络

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/brw.2018.0296

J. Mackenzie

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Coal, Rail and Victorians in the South African Veld. The Convergence of Colonial Elites and Finance Capital in the Stormberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape, 1880–1910 南非大草原的煤炭、铁路和维多利亚时代。殖民精英和金融资本在东开普省斯托姆伯格山脉的汇合，1880-1910

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-08-17 DOI: 10.3366/BRW.2018.0298

P. Gibbs

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Mapping Senegambia: Legacies of Ambition and the Failure of an Early Colonial Venture 绘制塞内冈比亚:野心的遗产和早期殖民冒险的失败

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-08-17 DOI: 10.3366/brw.2018.0300

Sven Outram-Leman

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Andrekos Varnava, Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, imperial loyalty and silenced memory 安德烈科斯·瓦尔纳瓦，《在大战中为帝国服务:塞浦路斯骡子军团、帝国忠诚和沉默的记忆》

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-08-17 DOI: 10.3366/BRW.2018.0305

Antigone Heraclidou

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Benjamin Mountford, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia 本杰明·芒福德，英国，中国和殖民地澳大利亚

IF 0.2 4区历史学

Britain and the World Pub Date : 2018-08-17 DOI: 10.3366/BRW.2018.0302

Stan Neal

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