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1) Ghosts of empire: Britain's legacies in the modern world

Author

Kwarteng, Kwasi

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Pub. Date

c2011

Physical Desc

446 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.

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"Kwasi Kwarteng...masterfully re-examines the messy legacy of the British Empire--grand, colorful, and chronically unstable due to haphazard, incoherent policy-making that went unchecked."--Jacket.

2) A continent erupts: decolonization, civil war, and massacre in postwar Asia, 1945-1955

Author

Spector, Ronald H

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2022]

Physical Desc

xx, 538 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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"A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II-and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe itmarked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace." Yet half a world away, in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, and Malaya-the...

3) We come as friends

Publisher

BBC Worldwide, Ltd. Film

Pub. Date

[2016]

Physical Desc

1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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At the moment when the Sudan, the continent's biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old civilizing pathology re-emerges: that of colonialism, clash of empires, and yet new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director Hubert Sauper flies a plane into South Sudan, interviewing residents, Chinese oil workers, UN peacekeepers, warlords and American evangelists.

4) The jewel in the crown

Publisher

A&E Television Networks

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

4 videodiscs (ca. 750 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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Beset by the political tension of an unsettled year, Gandhi calls for British removal from India. Police Superintendent Ronald Merrick arrests an Indian news reporter. Daphne Manner arrives from London. Merrick vents his frustrations on Kumar in a vicious jailhouse beating. Daphne gives birth. Mildred Layton prepares for her daughter's wedding. The Governor finds out about Merrick's abuse. Sarah is seduced by an officer. Susan delivers a baby boy....